More from Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
- So vast, so limitless in capacity is man’s imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
- A gentleman can live through anything.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
- Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
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