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«Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.»
«Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.»
«Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song»
«Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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«It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us»
«Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.»
«Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.»
«Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.»
«How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.»
«However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species»