I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound...
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Wesley Stace
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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William Faulkner
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
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Washington Irving
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before.
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William Shakespeare
We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
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Orhan Pamuk
More Quotes By La Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
We always love those who admire us and we do not always love those whom we admire.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
