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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.