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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”
― Agatha Christie

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
― Agatha Christie

“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”
― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

“Time is the best killer.”
― Agatha Christie

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
― Agatha Christie

“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“To every problem, there is a most simple solution.”
― Agatha Christie, The Clocks

“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
― Agatha Christie

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby