unattainable

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8e03dc2	" "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."	contentment curiosity doubt envy foes friends hope idleness inventory knowledge laughter life love sorrow sufficienty superfluity unattainable values wisdom	Dorothy Parker
69b0c45	He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable	love rules unattainable	Jodi Picoult
4ab6f3f	You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon--	idea love memory unattainable	Ayn Rand
a17f87b	In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear - sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.	counterfeit fear future impossible sorrow unattainable unworthy	Franz Kafka
a3d6b8b	They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.	impossible jeffrey-eugenides love suicide the-virgin-suicides unattainable	Jeffrey Eugenides
2c32e78	She...wanted no one--apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.	nineteenth-century unattainable	Kate Atkinson

8e03dc2

" "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."

contentment curiosity doubt envy foes friends hope idleness inventory knowledge laughter life love sorrow sufficienty superfluity unattainable values wisdom

Dorothy Parker

69b0c45

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

love rules unattainable

Jodi Picoult

4ab6f3f

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon--

idea love memory unattainable

Ayn Rand

a17f87b

In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear - sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself into happiness; fear, because, like my fear of the slightest action in the present, I also considered myself, in view of my contemptible, childish appearance, unworthy of forming a serious, responsible opinion of the great, manly future which usually seemed so impossible to me that every short step forward appeared to me to be counterfeit and the next step unattainable.

counterfeit fear future impossible sorrow unattainable unworthy

Franz Kafka

a3d6b8b

They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.

impossible jeffrey-eugenides love suicide the-virgin-suicides unattainable

Jeffrey Eugenides

2c32e78

She...wanted no one--apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.

nineteenth-century unattainable

Kate Atkinson