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I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

Agatha Christie

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
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
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Lie Long People Run Truth
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
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
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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Disaster Feeling Horrible Lose Oneself War Win
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
Books are a habit-forming drug.
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Book Drug Form Habit
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
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 one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Hard Oneself Principle See
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
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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Change Life People Tragedy
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Delight Fellow Mad People Quiet
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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Greatness Life Mistake See Time Wrong
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
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
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
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Alone Oneself Remember
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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Fact Let Go Theory
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
Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Bitter Forever Journey Path
Fiction is founded on truth unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
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Fiction People Thinking Truth
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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Beautiful Seek Truth Ugly
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
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Disaster Lose Oneself War Win
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
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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Advice Money Trust

I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.

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