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• In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Bye, Imagination, Spite

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• One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

  Shirley Hazzard

  Love, Thinking, Wish

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• Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Lying, Wish, Please

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• In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Long, England, Life Is

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.66, Macmillan

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• That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Loyalty, People, Matter

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.175, Macmillan

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• Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Giving, Guarantees, Might

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• For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

  Shirley Hazzard

  People, Support, Obscure

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• A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Writing, Long, Novelists

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• The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Loss, Night, Tragedy

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• Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

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  Beauty, Physical Beauty, True Nature

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.112, Macmillan

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• When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Hurt, Trying, Realizing

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