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Recovering from an ill-starred romance is, after all, to anyone of sufficient will-power and self-respect, purely an attitude of mind.

Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship.

'... we have to be kind, we have to be charitable and we can't condemn people just because they get in a mess...even the best people can get into ghastly messes,...we must never judge other people too harshly because although they can make awful mistakes they can still be very nice people.'

Boredom on social occasions is an inescapable hazard for the over-educated, and for the over-ambitious it must be endured.

Anything that lives forever gets bored.

Death had won my three friends; Death had almost won me. But now I was the one who was going to win and I was going to win by outwitting Death over and over again ... To compete with Death, as I had discovered in the mountains, was to know one was alive.

The various creation stories of ancient time were not scientific theories in any modern sense. They did not attempt to reveal anything new about the structures of the world; they aimed simply to remove the specter of the unknown from human imaginings.

We have all made mistakes. The mark of intelligence is to learn from them, and not be bound by the errors of the past.

The sense of squandered possibility, of better paths now lost to them all, filled him with a sudden rising sadness. He wondered if it was too late to make something better of their world.

People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.

If I’ve learned one thing in my long existence, it’s that hesitation gets you nowhere.

“You’re taking this very well,” Goma said.

Eunice gave a semi-shrug. “Experience. You can fight the odds up to a point, but sooner or later you have to face reality. The universe doesn’t care about temper tantrums or pity.”