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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.