Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

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