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The memory of man is as old as misfortune


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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.



A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.



Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.



Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.



Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.



We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.



To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.



It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.



Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.



Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.





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Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...

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Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.



I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.



Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.



Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.



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It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'



Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.



As with any true artist, change is the only constant.

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.



By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.




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