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It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!.
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
The lonely life: an autobiography -
It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
A Scandal in Bohemia (1891) -
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
A Short History of Nearly Everything -
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
The Remarkable Rocket (1888) -
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
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