For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body let alone the mind or both in combination when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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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