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What are days for?Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over.They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days?Ah, solving t...

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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doin...

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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

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life is first boredom, then fear.whether or not we use it, it goes,and leaves what something hidden from us chose,and age, and then the only end of ag...