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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

What we learn in a time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.

The Plague (1947)
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

attributed; E. F. Schumacher Good Work (1979)
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

The Fall (1956)

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