"My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you."
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"Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry."
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"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters."
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"--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink."
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"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative."
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"You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore."
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"I have so much of you in my heart."
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"Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit."
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"My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses"
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"We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author."
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"We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth.""
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"Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime."
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"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
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"The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it."
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"Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings."
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"Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true."
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"Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair."
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"I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever"
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"Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth."
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"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."
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