“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
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“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
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