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“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.” Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis” - 1905

“The night is long that never finds the day.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“However, he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.” Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” - 1885

“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

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Letters to a Young Poet (1)
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