“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
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When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, ' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
