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““..." like many elderly people, she has developed a selective sense of hearing. She ignores me and continues on her own track...””

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“Time is something you have to hold on to.”

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“When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal.…

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“With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my…

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“That was the way of the rule. They had so many to keep an eye on. As long as you kept a low profile,…

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“That was what we meant by science. That both question and answer are tied up with uncertainty, and that they are painful. But that…

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I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance…

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“There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.”

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“She said she had been thinking about the way you remembered your past. What you remembered, she said, was a string of events and…

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“The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you…

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It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

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There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a…

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When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from…

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“What was it then? What did it mean? Could things thrust their hands up and grip one; could the blade cut; the fist grasp?…

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Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that…

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We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work.…

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“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent,…

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Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and…

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“She looked now at the drawing-room step. She saw, through William’s eyes, the shape of a woman, peaceful and silent, with downcast eyes. She…

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