I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn’t it?
AGATHA CHRISTIEThe 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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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Very few of us are what we seem.
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What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
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Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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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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Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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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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Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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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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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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To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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