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“So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?”
― To Sir, With Love
― To Sir, With Love
“One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.”
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“If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents by their young.”
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“Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.”
― The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
― The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence— they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all. And death was a kind of gesture, forever withholding water from the traveler vainly seeking to slake his thirst. But for the others, it was the fatal and tender gesture that erases and denies, smiling at gratitude as at rebellion.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
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