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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time’s chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Time stays, we go.

It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.