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“He felt a flash of familiar shame—his whole life had been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked, and struggling, mostly failing, to translate to anyone else how and why everything mattered so much.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Trifles make the sum of life. ”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield