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““And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own. It is the failing of his lifetime.””

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“She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.”

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“Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.”

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“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.”

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“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.”

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“I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written—it’s a quirk…

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“I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.”

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“In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.”

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“If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They…

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“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.”

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I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they…

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies…

Jerome K. Jerome

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The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

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“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.”

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In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Rupert Sheldrake

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Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

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Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and…

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