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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

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As you are now so once were we.

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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

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