"And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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Selected Quotes of Beat the Devil (1953)
"O'Hara: Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.
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