They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.

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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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