"Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning."
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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
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"Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative."
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"Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?"
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"And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain."
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"Love: a grave mental disease."
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"Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol."
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"It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime."
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"The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on."
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"Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit."
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"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
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"Love is a kind of warfare."
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"It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears."
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"I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart."
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"The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep."
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"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."
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"I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past."
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"We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt."
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"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."
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"So cry if you need to but I can't stay to watch you It's the wrong thing to do"
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