"When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love."
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"So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it."
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"In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery."
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"To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room."
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"Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity."
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"I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret."
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"Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy."
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"The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them."
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"Things do not happen, we must make them happen"
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