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Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never s...more

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...more

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My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

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We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this presen...more

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Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.

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The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...''Isn't that going a little too far--e...more

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who...more

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They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they w...more

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Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms o...more

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Who can tell? It may be that there must always be growth - and that if one does not grow kinder and wiser and greater, then the growth must be the oth...more

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You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.

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Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tir...more

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We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

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How well you express it! That is exactly the curse of a politician's life. He has to bow to the country's feeling, however dangerous and foolhardy he ...more