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"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."

"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone."

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

"Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

"Dear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everybody in the world that you are the only thing that matters. Please, please, dear Jesus' The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Mestre he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rosa about Jesus. And he never told anybody."
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