Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

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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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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

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

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

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