"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
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"You can’t give your heart to a wild thing."
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"Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone."
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"I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are"
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"Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love."
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"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
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"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
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"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."
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"When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go."
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"Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury."
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"Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will."
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"Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe."
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"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past."
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"Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul."
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"Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them."
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"The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship."
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"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
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"He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it."
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"No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled."
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"every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage."
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