The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. -Logan Pearsall Smith

 

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.


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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! -Logan Pearsall Smith
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It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. -Logan Pearsall Smith
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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