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It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.

— Michael Frayn Clockwise (1986)

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I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.

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If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

The more you try to describe a dream the further it eludes your grasp, retreating before the advance of the words, growing cooler and cooler and paler and paler, until, when you have recorded it all, there is nothing of what it was really like left in your memory.

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