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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

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