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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."

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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

— C. S. Lewis

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