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It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. he has shown them that.
-Mary Renault
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It Is Better To Believe In Men

Mary Renault
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. he has shown them that.
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There's no regret. you can't regret. i mean, i've felt regret but i've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because i don't believe it. you feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. you've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
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We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. i do not regret that, however. i regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. i regret that i never told him that he made me happy, when i was in his company. the world was the better for his being in it. these things alone do i now regret: things left unsaid. and he is gone, and i am old.
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What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? what chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? and [he] thought he had the answer. regret. regret for things said, things done, and things not done. regret for the people they might have been. and failed to be.
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Let me tell you a few things about regret...there is no end to it. you cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?
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If i had my life to live over, i would try to make more mistakes. i would relax. i would be sillier than i have been this trip. i know of very few things that i would take seriously. i would be less hygienic. i would go more places. i would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. i would eat more ice cream and less spinach. i would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
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Did you know that nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the allies could project movies during the trial? and, also so that they could film the trial? the first movies that were shown were prepared by john ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of bergen-belsen and dachau. but here comes an interesting part. did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?
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