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You can't put off being young until you retire.


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How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.



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I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action



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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.



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As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.




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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.



Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

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