When you are forty half of you belongs to the past.. . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

Jean Anouilh
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  1. There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

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  3. Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

  4. It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

  5. Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

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