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- It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was all there. She took careful stock of herself, then combed her hair and tied it back up again.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder
(W. Bruce Cameron, "A Dog's Purpose")
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- Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
(Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
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- Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.
(Tom Robbins, "Jitterbug Perfume")
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- I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.
(Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum")
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- A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
(Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose")
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- And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of though snap off in the brain.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
(Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame")
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