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"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

"It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy."
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"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."


"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."


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"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."


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"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands."


"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."


"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."
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