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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.

Agatha Christie

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Beautiful Seek Truth Ugly
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
It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!
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Mystery Remove Romance
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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Person Thinking Wrong
I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.
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Experience Life Mindset Peace Yourself
With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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Problem Solve Thinking
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
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Coincidence Notice Worth Yourself
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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Beginning Human Mindset Remember Result Thinking Value
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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Care Failure Goodness Happiness People
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.
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Brain Count Goodness True Woman
Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.
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Creature Encouragement Need Writing
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Age Fight Live Material Willing Yourself

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 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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