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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."
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"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
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"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."
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"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."
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"Reading... a vacation for the mind...."
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"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
"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."
Life
"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
Chance
"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."
Criticism
"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
Action
"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."
Love
"I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit."
Affection
"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."
Humor
"No stone was laid upon another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of the belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the empty belly which are null and void."
Society
"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry."
Creativity
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