One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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