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“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“I was a lucky girl–without the self-esteem to feel it, or the wherewithal to enjoy what there was to enjoy of it and then let go.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“You wanted things and you couldn't help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake up with, and how could you ever tell yourself what you wanted was wrong?”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
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“But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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