The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
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Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.Shirley Hazzard
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself
Shirley Hazzard
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
Shirley Hazzard
Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.
Shirley Hazzard
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
Shirley Hazzard
Chronological prestige is tenacious once attained, it can't be shed it increased moment by moment, day by day, pressing its honours on you until you are lavishly, overly endowed with them. Until you literally sink under them.
Shirley Hazzard
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