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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: September 13th, 1894

Died: August 14th, 1984

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