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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
– Alan Lightman

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  10. Hope was never meant to beA future shared alone,As life cannot be won or lostIt was never ours to own. – Frederic M Perrin
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