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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.

Agatha Christie

It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
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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Important Inspirational Man Mistake Wasted Time Work
The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.
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Age Fools Old People Young
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?
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Essence Learning Life Myself Try
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
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Character Invention Life Tired Yourself
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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Acceptance Bitter Design Live Truth
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Different Present Time
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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Greatness Life Mistake See Time Wrong
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.
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Acceptance Companion Company Friendship Goodness Grave Learning Live Yourself
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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Busy Immortal Live Need People
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Delight Fellow Mad People Quiet
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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Darkness Desire Friendship Mystery Passion Yourself
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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Certain Oneself Sound Thinking Word

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