Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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

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