"One should have the courage of one's loneliness."

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Source : Ngaio Marsh (2014). “Singing in the Shrouds: Roderick Alleyn #20”, p.179, Felony & Mayhem Press

Ngaio Marsh

#Loneliness Quotes #Should Quotes

“It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.”
“If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.
“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”

Source : Julian Fellowes (2006). “Snobs: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
“You canâ€™t be disturbed by anything. Thereâ€™s no emotion involved. You canâ€™t feel sorrow, you canâ€™t feel pity, thereâ€™s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.”
“Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.”
“I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.”

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