Fiction is like a spider's web attached ever so slightly perhaps but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
I can only note that the past is beautiful, because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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