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"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"

"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

"If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart."

"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."

"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."

"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."

"I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn't.I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir."

"Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude."
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"When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it."

"Spiritual pain is when you can't stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can't let go."

"This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins."

"The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart."

"L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards."
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