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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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