“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
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“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
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“It’s all right to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
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“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
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“She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”
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“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way
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“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
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“Letting go of someone in your life is hard but it’s even more so when they betrayed and took advantage of you, shattering your only spark of hope you were holding onto.”
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
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“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
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“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
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“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
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“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”