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I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Business is the salt of life.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.