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There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

~Claude Debussy

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For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

~Claude Monet

Topics: Alas Any Better Days Hope Hoped Long Long Time Lose Me More More And More Necessary Poor Possible Suffers Think Time Today Weaker Wife

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In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Alas Appear Best Considered Entitled Finest Fossils Genre Leading Like Literature Mine More Published Spent Stories Story Western Which

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

~D. H. Lawrence

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Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.

~Dean Ornish

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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

~E. M. Forster

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

~Erica Jong

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Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

~Eugene Ionesco

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Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

~Fridtjof Nansen

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