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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
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In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
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Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.
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She said that all the sights in Rome were called after London cinemas.
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I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now... !
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There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
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When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
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Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
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Most people like reading about what they already know — there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
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Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
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One's emotions are intensified in Paris — one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place.
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People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?'
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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
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And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
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English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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I loathe abroad, nothing would induce me to live there … and, as for foreigners, they are all the same, and they all make me sick.
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
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Sophia wished that Florence would not talk about the Almighty as if his real name was Godfrey, and God was just Florence's nickname for him.
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Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
November 28, 1904
Died:
June 30, 1973
(aged 68)
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