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Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
Muriel Spark
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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
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Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
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I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
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Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
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Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
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Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
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Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
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Beware the ire of the calm.
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It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
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We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
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Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
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One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
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Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
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You look for one thing and you find another.
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Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
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Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first
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The word education comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
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The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.
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