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Destiny has two ways of crushing us — by refusing our wishe

Destiny has two ways of crushing us — by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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