Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

P.D. James

Mots clés pain healing



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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

P.D. James

Mots clés death sex violence



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Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

P.D. James

Mots clés identity nakedness naked



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Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

P.D. James

Mots clés humor humour false charm theo genuine xan



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I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

P.D. James

Mots clés humor love humour theo avoid



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All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

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History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

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It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

P.D. James

Mots clés pessimism aliens intelligent-life



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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

P.D. James

Mots clés fear marriage guilt regret embarrassment



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I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

P.D. James

Mots clés happiness love solitude responsibility self-sufficiency protection



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