It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

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Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

P.D. James

Mots clés murder bureaucracy

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Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.

P.D. James

Mots clés innocence guilt

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Every island to a child is a treasure island.

P.D. James

Mots clés fantasy islands

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Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

P.D. James

Mots clés past history remembrance

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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

P.D. James

Mots clés childhood memory

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Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

P.D. James

Mots clés romance encounters

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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

P.D. James

Mots clés sexuality sex

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But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit, the body no longer interested in sex, the mind no longer interested in speculation, the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and, in the end, the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all.

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The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

P.D. James

Mots clés trust television

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