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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Age: 64 †
Born: 1893
Born: June 13
Died: 1957
Died: December 17
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There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
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There's truth as far as you knows it and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.
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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
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It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
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If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
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I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
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Placetne, magistra? Placet.
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all conscious thought is a process in time so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
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I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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Do you know how to pick a lock? Not in the least, I'm afraid. I often wonder what we go to school for, said Wimsey.
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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
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But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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