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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.


Jane Austen


#conceal #especially #knowing #misfortune #she

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.


Franz Grillparzer


#better #character #dares #everyone #expose

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.


Haruki Murakami


#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life


James De Mille


#disappointment #horror #misfortune #sadness #life

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.


Paul Valery


#brake #great #kind #man #mask

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.


Anthony Trollope


#early #life #misfortune #necessary #only

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.


Virgil


#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.


Virginia Woolf


#better #down #likes #misfortune #much






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