“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

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