She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

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my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

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There is always something left to love.

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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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