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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way. ↗

— Henry Spencer

#just #smells #way

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. ↗

— Jane Austen

#early #given #life #much #nature

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ↗

— Mary Austin

#how #i #know #learned #much

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. ↗

— Paul Auster

#dead #end #night #number #other

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. ↗

— Paul Auster

#change #everything #forever #moment #suddenly

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#soul #summer #tears

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#bottom #class #constantly #even #gardening

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#claim #language #last #ordinary #ordinary language

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#admit #any #bad #briefly #defence