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The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Beryl Markham

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
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Achieve Dignity Work
The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.
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Haystack Needles Way
A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
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Ideas Journey Want
You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself.
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Book Card Care Red Shuffle Strive
I have a trunk containing continents.
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Containing Continents Trunks
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
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Errors Inspirational Thinking
There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt.
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Different Emptiness Rainstorm Silence
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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Knowledge Lifetime People
At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.
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Deathly Elephant Species Sting
A map says to you, ‘Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.’ It says, ‘I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.
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Alone Doubt Earth Hand Lost Path
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
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Kind Lions Men Unaccustomed
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.
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Cards Deck Loneliness Natural
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker’s rack.
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Children Men Race
Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.
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Again Drugs Memories
Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
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Paper Silence Steel
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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Book Dog Loneliness

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

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