In this world death has a habit of intervening before we ca… - Elizabeth Goudge

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In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay them to another.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was a British author of novels, short stories and children's books.

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Birth Name: Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge

Alternative Names: Elisabeth Goudge

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Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.

The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.

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In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay them to another. - Elizabeth Goudge

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