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There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
-Fernando Pessoa
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There's No Regret More Painful Than The

Fernando Pessoa
There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
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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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I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that i find more intimidating and far more painful an experience. it's the lack of critical thinking. it's the endless snarky, mean way we talk about each other, we approach each other. the anonymity of being cruel, the delight in tearing people down. the tabloid era that we find ourselves in is a cultural boneyard, and that is painful to me.
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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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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. it is more exciting to stand still than to dance. silence is more eloquent than speech. water is more stimulating than wine. fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. sunlight is more subtle than electric light. the scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. the slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.
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As a child i was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. as an adult i have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
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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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