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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

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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Dog Quiet Wisdom World Wound
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Delight Fellow Mad People Quiet
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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Mystery Stranger Thinking Thrill World
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Beautiful Seek Truth Ugly
The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
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Education Expectation Simplicity
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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Curiosity Love People Thinking Yourself
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
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Account Fact Let Go Theory
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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Growth Marriage Myself Old Praise
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
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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Mindset Thinking Way Wrong Yourself
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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Age Bloom Enjoyment Greatness Life Open Yourself
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
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Ourselves Quite Togetherness
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
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
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
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

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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