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great things may come from moments of nothingness.
Alexander McCall Smith
Great things
May come
Moment
Nothingness
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There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
Alexander McCall Smith
Many women
Whose lives
Immeasurably improved
Widowhood
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There is room in history for all of us.
Alexander McCall Smith
Room
In history
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I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.
Alexander McCall Smith
Tiny person
A place
Everybody
Sit down
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The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.
Alexander McCall Smith
Previously unloved
Believe
Now loved
Miracle
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Alexander McCall Smith
Special things
Have
Surviving
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You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.
Alexander McCall Smith
Lucky lady
Marrying
A man
Fix things
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You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe.
Alexander McCall Smith
Leave
Your heart
Breathing
Don't have
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There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
Alexander McCall Smith
Distinction
Lying
Telling half-truth
Narrow one
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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
Alexander McCall Smith
How many
Are happy
Any moment
Completely happy
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
Alexander McCall Smith
The point
About love
What
Not choose
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If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things too.
Alexander McCall Smith
Take God
Then right
Justice
Become small
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The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has placed us.
Alexander McCall Smith
The danger
Spend time
Imagining
Happier elsewhere
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the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting
Alexander McCall Smith
The thought
Crossed
Mind
Bed
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When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. And was that what had happened?
Alexander McCall Smith
Somebody
Smallest things
So important
Love transforms
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International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
Alexander McCall Smith
International business
Once allowed
Stalk uncontrolled
Killed
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There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.
Alexander McCall Smith
No need
For words
Times
Only hint
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Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.
Alexander McCall Smith
Myth
Sustaining
As reality
Sometimes
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We never realize how transparent we are.
Alexander McCall Smith
We never
Realize
How transparent
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I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down.
Alexander McCall Smith
A man
Born
Dry place
May dream
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I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in that life--love both given and received.
Alexander McCall Smith
I think
The measure
Life
Good one
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Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.
Alexander McCall Smith
Everything
Is possible
In love
The heart
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You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life.
Alexander McCall Smith
Help everybody
At least
Came into
Your life
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The new lover, of a few weeks standing, may seem more precious than friends of decades.
Alexander McCall Smith
New lover
Few weeks
More precious
Friends
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You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first.
Alexander McCall Smith
Make somebody
Love something
Heart first
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That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.
Alexander McCall Smith
Curious thing
About love
Very ordinary
Seem special
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has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people fall in love gradually rather than on the first occasion they meet the other person?
Alexander McCall Smith
Ever occurred
People
Love
First sight
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It is my duty to help them solve the mysteries in their lives. That is what I am called to do.
Alexander McCall Smith
My duty
Help them
Solve
The mysteries
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The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.
Alexander McCall Smith
Young rarely
Believe
Be able
Get what
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it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.
Alexander McCall Smith
Be odd
Have
No ambition
Something more
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Alexander McCall Smith
Remembered love
Feeling
Warmth
Light
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Women, as usual, were expected to behave better than men, and inevitably attracted criticism for doing things that men were licensed to do with impunity.
Alexander McCall Smith
Women
Were expected
Behave better
Than men
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There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.
Alexander McCall Smith
A difference
Failing
In love
Knowing it
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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?
Alexander McCall Smith
How many
Happy
Be exactly
Where
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History is the autobiography of a madman.
Alexander Herzen
History
Autobiography
Madman
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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it
Alexander Herzen
Nothing
The world
More stubborn
A corpse
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
Alexander Herzen
Life
Taught me
Thinking
Has not
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I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
Alexander Herzen
I believe
Nothing here
Handful
People
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False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
Alexander Herzen
False gods
Repudiated
The reason
Their existence
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
Alexander Herzen
Unaware
The absurdity
We introduce
Petty household
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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Alexander Herzen
Slavery
First step
Civilization
Develop
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We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death
Alexander Herzen
We think
Purpose
Child
Grow up
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It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.
Alexander Herzen
Be thought
Cowardly feeling
Self preservation
Innate
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The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie
Alexander Herzen
The people
Always expressive
The truth
Life
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Alexander Herzen
Truly horrified
Feeling
Narrowness
Outlook
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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen
Science
Which cut
Daily life
Wealth
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Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
Alexander Herzen
Compassionate love
Be strong
Its tears
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
Alexander Herzen
Bridle passion
With logic
Justify
Law courts
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The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.
Alexander Herzen
The liberty
Individual
Greatest thing
Can develop
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We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
Alexander Herzen
Hardly believe
Many ordeals
Trials
Modern skepticism
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