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“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

tags: sad-but-true

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“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: avarice, catholic-author, common-sense, curiosity, deadly-sins, faults, gadfly, gold, greed, greediness, greedy-people, human-nature, mammon, proverbs, riches, sad-but-true, wisdom, wise-sayings

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“She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

tags: honesty, love, sad-but-true

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“One day we'll look back we'll smile and we'll laugh,but right now we just cry. Cuz it's so hard to say good-bye.”
― Miley Cyrus

tags: i-ll-always-remember-you, sad-but-true

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“Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we supposed to do? Should we abandon knowledge? Throw away reason? In any event, that wouldn't be possible. For better or worse, we ate the fruit of knowledge long, long ago.”
― Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Welcome to the N.H.K.

tags: sad-but-true

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