The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many … - E. V. Lucas

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If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

E. V. Lucas

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

Civilized, Ethics, Honesty, Left, Risk, Risks

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A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

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In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

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What kind of life a dog. . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

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People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

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It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.

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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

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How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

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