My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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