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"Passing beneath the dance hall, thinking again of this book, I realized suddenly that our life had come to an end: I realized that the book I was planning was nothing more than a tomb in which to bury her - and the me which had belonged to her. That was some time ago, and ever since I have been trying to write it. Why is it so difficult? Why? Because the idea of an "end" is intolerable to me."
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."
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"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."
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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end."
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"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."
Friendship
"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."
Life
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
Man
"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."
Life
"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."
War
"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"
Man
"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."
Control
"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"
Truth
"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."
Society
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
Work
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