Quote by Alice James
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. – Alice James

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How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness. – Alice James

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respect
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – Alice James

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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. – Humphry Davy

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What weve got here is a failure to communicate. – Donn Pearce

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Failure

Destiny: A tyrants authority for crime and a fools excuse for failure. – Ambrose Bierce

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Failure

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. – Elbert Hubbard

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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. – Rachel Field

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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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