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incapacities Quotes

Five of the best book quotes about incapacities
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“To gaze into the depths of blue of the child’s eyes and pronounce their loveliness a trick of premature cunning was to be guilty of a cynicism in preference to which I naturally preferred to abjure my judgment and, so far as might be, my agitation. I couldn’t abjure for merely wanting to, but I could repeat to Mrs. Grose—as I did there, over and over, in the small hours—that with their voices in the air, their pressure on one’s heart, and their fragrant faces against one’s cheek, everything fell to the ground but their incapacity and their beauty.”
Henry James
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The Turn of the Screw
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“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.”
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“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”
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″“Traumatic stress cuts to the heart of life, interfering with one’s capacity to love, create, and work - incapacity brought on not by poor lifestyle choices, moral weakness, or character flaws but by a complex interplay among biology, genes, and environment.”
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“You should have a fear of some things. That doesn’t mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it. ”

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