P. D. James - Human Quotes

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Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

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All these problems are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had if only they persevere.

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The intention of any novelist must surely be to make that straight avenue to the human heart.

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Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

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Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?

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