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title: "3 Failed Wishes Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-desmond-bernal/naturalism-aimed-at-giving-the-primitive-wishes-full-play-but-failed/)

[John Desmond Bernal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-desmond-bernal/)

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> [“She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/she-has-failed-she-wishes-she-didn-t-mind-something-she-thinks-is/)

[Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/)

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> [“All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thornton-wilder/all-of-us-have-failed-one-wishes-to-be-punished-one-is-willing-to/)

[Thornton Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thornton-wilder/)

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