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However long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

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It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

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Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

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We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

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Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

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Detective fiction... confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible and moral universe.

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