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Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

Beryl Markham

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

Talk lives in a man's head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

Beryl Markham

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favours that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

Beryl Markham

I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.

Beryl Markham

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Beryl Markham