Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations to hear the chimes at midnight to see the sunrise in town and country to be converted at a revival to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.
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