"Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again."
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"The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return."
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"Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly."
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"The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love."
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"You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here."
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"Health is a return to our memory of wholeness."
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"Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No."
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"Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves."
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"Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth."
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"Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind."
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"Donald Trump said that if President Obama releases his birth certificate, Trump will release his tax return. Obama said he won't run for a second term if Trump releases that thing on his head."
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"This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return."
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"As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me."
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"The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return."
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"If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return."
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"It is only the dead who do not return."
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"I wanted to remember in order to be able to return."
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"The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death."
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"However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless."
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"It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman."
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