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"You'll get over it. It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because it is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you, and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"
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"This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library."
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"Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value."
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Personal Development
"There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand."
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Personal Development
"The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it."
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Personal Development
"May be you are gone,but that doesn't make me come back."
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Personal Development
"Times goes far a lot of I still remember my father what he said in January "Books aren't important" March 27 he died (suicided!).... ANd what has left me??A lot of great people died this year, privous and every other which will come, believe or not the heart can't take it!Only it can take it, if it reads books, watches films and does this which make this person to be out of the humanity once out, never sound hear, never sad."
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"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."
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Personal Development
"I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel."- Does it get easier?"Yes. But you'll never be the same again."
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Personal Development
"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."
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Personal Development
"Everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me..."
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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
Ambition
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
Philosophy
"The wider we read the freer we become."
Knowledge
"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."
Creativity
"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."
Life
"Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?"
Ethics
"The free man never thinks of escape."
Freedom
"Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox, that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there."
Love
"Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"
Fantasy
"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
Books
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