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"Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets."
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"Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption - without the paperwork."

"If love has taken us for a ride and passion made us ignore sham and swindle, the time has come to separate the wheat from the chaff and polish up diamonds of trust, neatly, day by day. ['Taken for a ride']"

"Some seem to be desynchronized in their relationships. They feel oppressed, because they cannot move forward together and at the same pace. Their thinking is often incongruent, their motivation disparate. The phone could be a mediator, as it creates an impression to be a perfect reliable friend. However, in the end, it causes rather a sense of isolation, since it divides more than it unites. Eventually it appears not to be such a good friend but only a ghost friend. ['Kein Schwein ruft mich an']"

"He should be very proud of Andrew if he got a scholarship, he said. She would be just as proud of him if he didn't, she answered. They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did."

"Gratitude is the bridge that merges your love with longevity. It is the vital ingredient for a lasting relationship."

"If you want to be with someone, be with them! Don't make excuses, cause drama, or make them fight for a spot in your life. Express your love and commitment with words and actions. And if you don't feel inspired to show your love this way, be kind enough to let them go... so they can find someone who will."

"I feel so grateful to discover that each new day brings me the opportunity to watch the sunrise and fall in love with you again."

"Friendship is a beautiful blessing. You may love your friends and they may love you, but that doesn't mean they should have unexamined influence in all areas of your life."

"But love, don't we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It's only a story one makes up in one's mind about another person, and one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows; why, one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion."

"You and I were never meant to be together, but we are. Our pairing is not unlike two electrons ignoring natural laws in order to orbit one another. Life now defies reason-quirky but beautiful."
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"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."

"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."

"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."

"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."
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