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Recognize the truth of your actions, by all means, but having done so, pass on. You can’t put the clock back and you can’t usually undo what you’ve done. Continue living.

Half the troubles in life come from pretending to oneself that one is a better and finer human being than one is. Book III Ch 2

How unfair it was, reflected Dame Laura, that women in love looked their best and men in love looked like. Ch4

One of my pet theories (quite unrealizable, of course, that’s the pleasant part about theories) is that everybody should spend one month a year in the middle of a desert. Camped by a well, of course, and plentifully supplied with dates or whatever you eat in deserts. Ch4

A man of sixty is usually repeating himself like a gramophone record. A woman of sixty, if she’s got any individuality at all—is an interesting person. Ch1

Only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave—our own self. ch1