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"Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
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"Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests."

"You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them."

"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."

"There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present."

"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."

"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."

"She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."

"Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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