When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
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The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.
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