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"It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry."
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"I think this'll definitely tide me over while we're apart,Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate.'Oh, Kitten, he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. 'You didn't really think we were done, did you?"

"I like you so much I don't know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I'm going to see you again."

"Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land."

"My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire."

"I have no words - alas! - to tellThe loveliness of loving well!"

"Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."

"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."

"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
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