"Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay."
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"I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time."
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"If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general."
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"You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear."
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"God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?"
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"I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down."
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"Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche."
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"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
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"We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever."
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"I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value."
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"I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail."
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"The only way to fail is to quit."
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"Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail."
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"The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves."
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"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."
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"Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so."
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"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
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"Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions."
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"I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words."
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"A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep."
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