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You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.
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“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
― Sexing the Cherry
― Sexing the Cherry

“What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?”
― The Passion
― The Passion

“I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?”
― The Passion
― The Passion

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We鈥檝e got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover

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