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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."
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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."
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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Life
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
Fear
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
Life
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
Books
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Work
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
Family
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
Faith
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
Imagination
"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."
Control
"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."
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