"Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it."
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"No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret."
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"Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms."
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"It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences."
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"Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered."
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"Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that."
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"A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past."
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"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed."
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"The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late."
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"Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three."
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"There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late"
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"Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee."
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"The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done."
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"It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now."
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"As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."
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"I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late."
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"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."
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"It's never too late to fall in love."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing"
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