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«The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.»
«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.»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
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calamity, discount, discounting, drama, Grown up, humbly, imagining, prestigious
«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?»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
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confronted, dismissed, enviable, instance, on the side, promiscuity, questioned, reluctance, resented, resents, secretly, sentiment
«It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.»
«Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
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America and Americans
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Americans, American civilization, civilization, out to, phenomenon, turn out
«Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
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