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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
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After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
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After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.
Love and Death (1975) -
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
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After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
Death in the Clouds (1935) -
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
On War (1832) -
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
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