L'auto-élimination est le plus grand défaut de notre jeunesse.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick falls across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

(On vultures:)  "... those false but democratic mourners at every casual bier ...

It is really this that makes death so hard — curiosity unsatisfied.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)  "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

To her all things are poignantly lacking — but she is incapable of desiring anything.

Beryl Markham

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Written By Beryl Markham

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