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“Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.”
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“I never regret the things I do. It's only the things I haven't done that I regret.”
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“You do not die from being born, nor from having lived, nor from old age. You die from something. ... There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
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“As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff of it is bad for you.”
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“The silence of a man who loves to praise, is a censure sufficiently severe ... ”
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“Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.”
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“The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”
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“This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.”