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"Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."
"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."
"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."
"And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice."And when you do find one, observe with care, he said to the intern:"they almost always have crystals in their heart."
"He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself."
"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come."
"That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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