"What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better."
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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
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"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."
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"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy."
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"All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with."
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"If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation."
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"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."
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"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that."
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"A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it."
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"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
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"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts."
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"Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever."
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"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live."
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"Please remember: things are not what they seem."
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"As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves."
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"Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted."
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"Our responsibility begins with our imagination."
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"What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last."
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"Find me now. Before someone else does."
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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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