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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days....  
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view,...  
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against lo...  
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasu...  
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Pri...   Religion
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers ...  
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.  
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our...  
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.  
The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose h...  
The surest sign of age is loneliness.  
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual ...   Nature
You can't test courage cautiously.