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"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
"The value of time is immeasurable."
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person."
"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."
"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."
"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."
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