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"Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own."
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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."
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Personal Development

"The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive."
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Personal Development

"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."
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Personal Development

"When I am with you, even the water makes me drank."
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Personal Development

"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."
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"Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless."
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Personal Development

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
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Personal Development

"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."
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Personal Development

"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
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Personal Development

"Despair is criminal."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
Love

"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
Marriage

"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
Ethics

"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
People

"Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice."
Morality

"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
Love

"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."
Life

"For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
Philosophy
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