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

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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have 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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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

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

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

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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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my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

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