"Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart."
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"I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight."
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"This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart."
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"Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others"
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"I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms."
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"Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration."
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."
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"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."
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"It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part."
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"We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
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"In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner."
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"Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels."
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"There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart."
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"The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, For me it is my heart."
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"I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women."
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"Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."
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"A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes."
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"Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near."
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"It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon."
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"Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes."
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