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It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of sometimes pathetic lives. ↗

— P.D. James

#murder-mysteries #life

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#romance #life

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a few. ↗

— James D. Maxon

#reaching-people #tales #writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #writing-philosophy

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#businesses #economy #million #nation #need

Life will be a whole lot better if we understand what our salvation in Christ means. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#agu #god #higher-living #jaachynma #prince

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it. ↗

— Clifton Cameron

#life

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#his #into #life #man #politics

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#each #him #himself #life #look

The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle and a Plato have much to say; but those who have imposed cautions on themselves and petrified themselves in a system of ideas, them the masters themselves will lead into error ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#living #life

While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it. ↗

— Samuel Sagan

#life #freedom