nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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There is always something left to love.

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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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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

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...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...

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

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

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