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I should have stayed as close as I could to her. I needed her, and she needed me.
“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
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wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
―
“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies”
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
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“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― The Poetical Works of John Dryden
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― The Poetical Works of John Dryden
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