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Marriage is a very long process.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth Goudge
Age: 83 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 24
Died: 1984
Died: April 1
Author
Novelist
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Wells
Somerset
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge
Elisabeth Goudge
Marriage
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One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.
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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.
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I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.
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One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.
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In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
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All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
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He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.
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She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.
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Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.
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Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.
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In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
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What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.
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