"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"
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"But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it."
"We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken."
"For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy."
"When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349"
"I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old."
"I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope."
"The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun."
"I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take."
"When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance."
"Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire."
"Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream. [Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram: Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]"
"A lover fears all that he believes."
"For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all."
"Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty."
"Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men."
"Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind."
"We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west."
"The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb."
"What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart."