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"... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive."
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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."
"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."
"My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue."
"Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, 'there is joy is self-forgetfulness.' So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."
"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."
"Emotion is 'recognition'. When treasured moments are identified in the jungle of our personal history during a visual or aural encounter, we capture magic sparks from our past, arousing flashes of insight and revealing an inner flare. These instants of recognition may kindle enthralling emotion and fulfilling inspiration. ['Those journeys of love']"
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"
"If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one."
"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
"It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend."
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool."
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