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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

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Advice Heart Heart Broken Myself
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Hard Oneself Principle See
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
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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Knowledge Oneself Wisdom
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
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Advice Goodness Ignorance Reason
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
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
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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Children Failure Oneself Past See View World
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
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach
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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Children Dare Herself Law Love Mom Path Stand World
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Courage Face Resolution See
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
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Expression Greatness People Proper Trouble Writing
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life

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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