Disappointment Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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“no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.”

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Happiness is an immunity.

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I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people…

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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

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Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

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“It is,” answered Laura with almost violent agreement. “If you are a were-wolf, and very likely you may be, for lots of people are…

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I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver…

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There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ...…

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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

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when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

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It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth…

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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

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Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities.

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“My earthly body has been a terrible disappointment to me.”

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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