"That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear."
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"Time does not pass, it merely changes."
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"They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing."
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"The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side."
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"Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present"
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"I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn’t you?"
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"it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear"
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"Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection."
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"What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror."
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"Going after what I believe in."
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"When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories."
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"That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them"
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"Happiness is the only goal worth pursuing"
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"fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."
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"God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside."
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"she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves."
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"The future would end up finding out the truth about the past."
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"And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer."
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"If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to."
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"Believing absolutely everything that appears in print."
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