Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Agatha Christie
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  1. It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

  2. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  3. To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

  4. Poirot, " I said. "I have been thinking."" An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

  5. No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought?-- Poirot

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