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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Death

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
  • 2. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
  • 3. These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears close our eyes and blindly follow the most narrow conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

2 Amazing

  • 1. You can lose a game but I see guys every week including myself you lose a game it's a tough loss you're down two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.
  • 2. Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is many companies don't have great imagination but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
  • 3. Everyone says 'You give birth you go home and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone else's.
  • 2. Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
  • 3. I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust jealousy anger those are all quite easy. But actual genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
  • 2. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
  • 3. Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
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