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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.