"It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future."

-- Daniel Kehlmann

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“I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.”
“At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.”
“Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.”

Source : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.67, Ballantine Books
“It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.”

Source : "The Search for a Soul". Book by Jess Stearn, 1972.
“It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I will love you truly forever and a day!”

Source : William Rose Benét (1947). “The Stairway of Surprise: Poems”, New York : Alfred A. Knopf
“Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing”

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