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“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care nought about it.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.” George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
“The crimes of the vanquished find their background and their explanation, though not, of course, their pardon, in the follies of the victors. Without these follies crime would have found neither temptation nor opportunity.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” William Shakespeare, Othello
“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.” Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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