We do not remember days, we remember moments.
From Cesare Pavese
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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