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"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."
"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."
"There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."
"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."
"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
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