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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."

"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."

"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."

"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."

"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."

"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
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