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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Seneca the Younger

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Raymond Chandler

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.