"Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book."

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“For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1738, Delphi Classics
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