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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
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I can't be twenty-two again. I can't subject myself to the same compulsion that, at the time, appeared to me as freedom and gave me wings.
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There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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July 25, 1905
Died:
August 14, 1994
(aged 89)
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