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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.