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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
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P.D. James (2015). “P. D. James’s Cordelia Gray Mysteries: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
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P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.43, Vintage

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It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
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Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
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P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.505, Vintage

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He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?
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P.D. James (2015). “P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness”, p.807, Simon and Schuster

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