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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
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"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."
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"You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do."
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"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."
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"People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think."
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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
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"Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles."
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"I'm very romantic."
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"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing."
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"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
Knowledge
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
Justice
"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
Word
"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."
Society
"As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill."
Happiness
"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
Knowledge
"This love is silent."
Love
"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
Heart
"How wild it was, to let it be."
Freedom
"The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
Wisdom
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