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Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.
– Patricia Highsmith

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  4. I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them. – Patricia Highsmith
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  6. one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. – Patricia Highsmith
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  8. What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? – Patricia Highsmith
  9. I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me. – Patricia Highsmith
  10. And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect. – Patricia Highsmith
  11. My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people. – Patricia Highsmith
  12. I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication. – Patricia Highsmith
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  15. He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room. – Patricia Highsmith
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  18. The justice I have received, I shall give back. – Patricia Highsmith
  19. What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow? – Patricia Highsmith
  20. Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? – Patricia Highsmith
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  24. Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions. – Steven Magee
  25. There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world. – Henry Ward Beecher
  26. Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  27. The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive? – Nanamoli Thera
  28. Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow. – Carlos Wallace
  29. Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. – Blaize Clement
  30. I’m mistaken-¦.for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking. – Coco J Ginger
  31. God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  32. Don’t seek a failure-less life. Wear failure as a badge of honour. Seek a fearless life ! – Manoj Arora
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  34. All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart. – Timothy J Keller
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  39. Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else’s blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. – Albert Camus
  40. It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever. – Tommy Wallach

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