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  1. Ivo Andrić _ The Bridge on the Drina

    ...it was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome.
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  2. Ivo Andrić _ The Bridge on the Drina

    But misfortunes do not last forever {this they have in common with joys} but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.
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  3. Louisa May Alcott _ Jo's Boys

    …misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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  4. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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  5. Howard Pyle _ The Story of King Arthur and

    And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though such grievous things as sorrow and death could never happen in the world wherein they live.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ How Right You Are, Jeeves

    The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgement by the party of the second part's glamour. Put it like this: the male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher {who would be fine for the non-rabbit} and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce.
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Girl in Blue

    He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ Very Good, Jeeves!

    Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
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  9. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    That's how stories happen - with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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  10. Marjane Satrapi _ Persepolis 2: The Story of a

    We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
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  11. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra _ Don Quixote

    They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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