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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.