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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

"When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it."

"Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy."

"There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness."

"When you hear love calling you, don't pretend to be deaf."
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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals."

"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?"

"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left."
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