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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Agatha Christie

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
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 what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
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
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Beautiful Seek Truth Ugly
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Assumption Dangerous One Liner
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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Knowledge Oneself Wisdom
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
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
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
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Love Pay Price Yourself
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
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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Kill Murder Potential Rise Time Willing
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
With thought, all problems can be resolved.
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Problem Solve Thinking
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time 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
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself
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 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
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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Explanation Rush Weakness
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.
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Best Hide Person Secret Yourself
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
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Intrigue Listening
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
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth

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