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Until one looks back on one’s own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

Agatha Christie

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
There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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Different Doubt Money Myself Oneself People World
Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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Human Life Nature See Train Wonderful
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
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Different Present Time
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
If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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Animal Bite Complain Head Place 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
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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Evil Freedom God Man Tendency Willing
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
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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Children Experience Growth Intuition Reading Word
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
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Innocence One Liner Person
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
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
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
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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Appearance Funny Goodness Hard Life Man 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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Alive Despair Live Misery Myself Quite Sorrow Wild
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
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
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Hard Knowledge Life Live Love Sad Save Suffering Yourself
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
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Alive Destroy Happiness Place Yourself
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
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself
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
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Best Herself Husband Old Woman
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
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Disaster Lose Oneself War Win
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Courage Face Resolution See

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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