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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."

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"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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