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We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

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One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.
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It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.
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I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.
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I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
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And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.
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We invent the past and remember the future.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.
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While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
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I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.
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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
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