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“things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse—hunger, hardship, and disappointment being . . . the unalterable law of life.” George Orwell, Animal Farm
“any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“We were born to strive and endure—you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder; for even the good is better when it is harder.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
“life is so damned hard . . . it just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don’t tell me to leave.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.” Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things—they save you.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“We remember good times much better — so what's the good of bad times?” Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream
“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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