A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.Knut Hamsun
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
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Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
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