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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
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Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.
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Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.
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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
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If you love people, you take them on trust.
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I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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Oh, wise young judge.
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
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