"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
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"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."
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"I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits."
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"I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals."
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"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
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"People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
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"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."
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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."
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"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
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"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."
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"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."
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"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
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