She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Simone De Beauvoir
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
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Nicholas Sparks
It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
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Jules Renard
The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too, " laughed the little old man. Said the little boy,...
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Shel Silverstein
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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P.g. Wodehouse
More Quotes By Elias Canetti
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.
For I believe that part of knowledge is its desire to show itself and its refusal to put up with a merely hidden existence. I find mute knowledge dangerous, for it grows ever more mute and ultimately secret, and must then avenge itself for being...
There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them...
