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Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
“Hurry home, darling," she said. "Hurry home." And how's that for a man to have! When I hung up, I stood by the phone all weak and leaky and happy if there is such a condition. I tried to think how it had been before Mary, and I couldn't remember, or how it would be without her, and I could not imagine it except that it would be a condition bordered in black.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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