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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    There were countless injustices and difficulties in this world, but small points of light too, where the darkness was held back.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    Perhaps one should expect to be attended to by philosophers in Edinburgh delicatessens, just as one might be waited upon by psychoanalysts in the restaurants of Buenos Aires. Is the braised beef really what you want?
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    What is beauty, she thought, but the promise of happiness, as Stendhal said it was?
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    And the difference was this, she mused: those who are twenty don't know what it is like to be forty, whereas those who are forty know what it is like to be twenty. It was a bit like discussing a foreign country with somebody who has never been there. They are prepared to listen, but it's not quite real for them.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    And here, she said to herself, is the victim of the witch hunt, or its modern equivalent. Not much has changed. Witchcraft or sexual harassment: the tactics of persecution were much the same - the loathed enemy was identified and then demonised.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    And she, Isabel, had gone along with this and all the time what was happening was she was becoming increasingly possessive of Jamie without ever having to acknowledge it. Now there was another woman, a girl really, and there was an obvious intimacy between them, which would exclude her as it would have to do, and that would be the end of everything.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    It's how we read the face, said Ian. Remember that you're talking to a psychologist. We like to think about things like that. It's a question of numerous little signals that create the overall impression.But how do internal states who themselves physically?Very easily, said Ian. Think of anger. The knitted brow. Think of determination. The gritted teeth.And intelligence?Liveliness and engagement with the world.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    Ако човек, изчаквайки в нещо като предверие момента на своето раждане, можеше да си избере националността, не би ли било доста изкусително да поискаш да се родиш като италианец?
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    Resolution. Musicians know all about that, don't they? Pieces of music seek resolution, have to end on a particular note, or it sounds all wrong. The same applies to our lives. It's exactly the same.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    The problem with being me, thought Isabel, as she walked along George IV Bridge, is that I keep thinking about the problem of being me.
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