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“They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”
― Moonraker
― Moonraker
“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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