[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
BERYL MARKHAMYou learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself.
More Beryl Markham Quotes
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Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.
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The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.
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You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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I have a trunk containing continents.
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things – the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold – were false to you.
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After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work
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Success breeds confidence.
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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city.
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A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
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The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing
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That’s what makes death so hard–unsatisfied curiosity
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A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
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