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Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

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Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains from heroes and so forth...There's still plenty for ...more

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Who is this man?''Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.''No? Spelt like Yes?'...more

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I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists be...more

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Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicot...more

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From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed to him a town the ce...more

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You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

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She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped...more

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All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

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Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

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He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He k...more

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You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

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I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept th...more