Words on Life

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
- Graham Greene

"You're searching, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles."
- Robert Frost

"The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving."
- Vauvenargues

"The soul of all action is blindness. He who knows, cannot act any longer. Knowing means foregoing action and renouncing passion."
- Egon Friedell

"People always get what they ask for; the only trouble is that they never know, until they get it, what it actually is that they have asked for."
- Aldous Huxley

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