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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

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Love Pay Price Yourself
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
It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
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Love People Suffering
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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Knowledge Ourselves Possession Weapon
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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Acceptance Bitter Design Live Truth
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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Alive Despair Live Misery Myself Quite Sorrow Wild
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
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
If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Hard Oneself Principle See
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
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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Crime Innocence Justice Mercy Need Result Victim
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
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Complete Fear Knowledge One Liner
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
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
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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Direction Myself Necessary Possible Save Thinking Trouble

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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