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Donald Justice1 quote
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to. — Donald Justice · 1967Henry Kissinger1 quote
The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written. — Henry Kissinger · 1972John Greenleaf Whittier1 quote
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!" — John Greenleaf Whittier · 1856Jonathan Safran Foer1 quote
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005Mitch Albom1 quote
Nothing haunts like the things we don't say. — Mitch Albom · 2009T.S. Eliot1 quote
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. — T.S. Eliot · 1936William Shakespeare1 quote
What's done cannot be undone. — William Shakespeare · 1616