The conversation did not go very well and I began telling him about the people with their trays in the great cafeteria and suggesting that it would have done us more good to go there to be put in mind of our own mortality.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
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Ayn Rand
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
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H. Rider Haggard
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to...
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Mitch Albom
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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Marcus Aurelius
More Quotes By Barbara Pym
She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.
But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a...
We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier.. .. Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.
