William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"What's done can't be undone."
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Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"In love, one and one are one."
Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something."
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"Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone."
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"Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone."
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"Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best."
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"Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something."
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"When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone."
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"This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone."
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"What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed."
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"The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something"
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"For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done."
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"What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again."
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"Whatever can be done, can be undone."
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"I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did."
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"As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished."
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"There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone"
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"We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned."
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"In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting."
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