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"No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide."
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"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."

"I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn't love him if it weren't right."

"Those shiny eyes like the stars in the sky; but black and brown, And those beautiful lips like the flowers but sugary And those kind smells, lovable but with no purpose All meant to be for me? Someone must have been praying and wishing me the whole world."

"It's a known fact, that in life, you can't have everyhing. In my heart, I knew that I loved them both as much as it is possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. And I know that now--that love isn't something you can erase--no matter how hard you try."

"When love writes a letter, joy is its ink."

"True love is like diamonds; scarce, and priceless."

"Wooing a woman is like fishing, the quality of your catch is determined by the quality of your bait."
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"I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."

"The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare."

"He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear."

"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter."

"Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being."

"We had our arms round each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find."

"Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle."

"Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his."
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