Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.
Parents... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
You have to be a product of the product.
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