"My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners."
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"Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please."
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"Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up."
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"we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them."
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"It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."
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"Don't be insecure, if your heart is pure"
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"In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it."
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"the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half"
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"And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood."
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"Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart."
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"It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday."
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"It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death."
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"There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart"
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"I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them."
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"America is a willingness of the heart."
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"I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart."
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"For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it."
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"France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart."
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"I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to."
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"The heart of a statesman should be in his head."
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