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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.