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Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
                                        
                                        Holi Festival, Miami, Florida, on Sunday, April 1978, printed in Divine Times April/May 1978 Volume 7, Number 3 
1970s
                                    
“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
                                        
                                        Quote from a program at a Coolidge memorial service (1933); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). The passage did not originate with Coolidge, but evolved over several decades, appearing as early as 1881 in a youth guidance book. From [Garson O’Toole, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/12/persist/, Purpose and Persistence Are Required for Success: Unrewarded Genius Is Almost a Proverb, Quote Investigator, January 12, 2016] 
1930s
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        