Beauty is an ecstasy, it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar but in a city with its blaze of light

In the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

A man marries to have a home but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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    The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

    The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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