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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."
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"He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods."


"I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery."


"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."


"A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it."


"In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march."


"The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached."


"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"


"She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining."


"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"
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