There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

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Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

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People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don’t understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

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Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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One thing I’ve learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don’t feel it there’s probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

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