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  • An old friend is like an old chair. One delights in it — one finds shelter within its kindly arms.

  • Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.

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  • I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from ...

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  • For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

  • All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.

  • ... out of various forms of personal catastrophe comes art, if you're lucky.