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“Before success comes in any mans life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. T...”
“You thought it would break you in two, but it made you twice as strong.”
“Any success against a false target is a false victory.”
“Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.”
“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an o”
“You arent falling apart. Youre well beyond that. Youre just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you dont know how to properly reatt...”
“And with that, Im going to crawl into bed and try to erase all that has happened today.”
“You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.”
“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at the sigh...”
“Only the vanquished remember history.”
“Perhaps it was the way he'd look at me and smile,Perhaps it was the sound of his voice after being utterly defeated,Perhaps it was the warmth of his touch,Perhaps I've always been in love with you”
“The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”
“Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.”
“Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.”
“My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.”
“Sometime we get so tired that we wish to get defeated, and want to feel the pleasure of that failure.”
“Only your fearful and doubtful thoughts could defeat you in life.”
“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isnt tiny or giant en...”
“The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the ...”
“I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: Im disgusting. I cant play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.”
