One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
AGATHA CHRISTIEBitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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