"The tragedy is not that love doesn't last.……" — Shirley Hazzard
"The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts."
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Shirley Hazzard
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16 Quotes by Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard has 16 quotes on this site.
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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and…
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life,…
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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it…
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I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.
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In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who…
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Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short…
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The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had…
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Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not…
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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of…
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At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time…
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
— A. Whitney Brown
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