What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

Winifred Holtby in O Magazine (September 2002)
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The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

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These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

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