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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

People Marrying Resist Natural forces
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Woman Define Feelings Language
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick.

Ladies Guard against Read novels Tell them
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Woman Can see Distance Man
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I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.
One thing This life Love you Keep wanting
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

An offense Truth Better Concealed
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

The beauty Character Achievements Aims
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Man's silence Wonderful Listen
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our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Our impulses Too strong Judgement sometimes
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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
Hobble Being alive Serious
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.

Little sun Soul Some dream Affection
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posses half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

You overrate Capacity Love Warmth
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All romances end at marriage.

All romances End At marriage
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I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Some good Dead Success Frightful example
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

Fate Makes Villain A man
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When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Strong woman Throws away Strength Worse than
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I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Question My belief Even stronger
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Teach me Live Grave My bed
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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Have torn My life Prayed In pity
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O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.

Wish Never seen Loving Misery
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Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Willing to Be vulnerable Among mysteries
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What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

More people Specialize Impossible
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Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Deep Roots Flowers Light
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Wake Sleep My fate Cannot fear
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What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Madness Nobility Soul Circumstance
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A mind too active is no mind at all.

Mind Too active
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In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

Place Light Live Bird
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I do not laugh; I do not cry; I'm sweating out the will to die. My past is sliding down the drain; I soon will be myself again.

Laugh Cry Sweating out My past
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I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.

Long Imperishable quiet Heart
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Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Nothing Give up Life Dirt
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In a dark time, the eye begins to see. I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

Dark time Eye To see Deepening shade
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Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Be sure Whatever You are
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All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

All lovers Live Longing Endure
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The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Were sharp Wind Walking along Highway
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What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

Madness Nobility Soul Circumstance
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I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet.

Fear Shadows Start Own feet
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I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.

Teach My sighs Songs Tree
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My bones whisper to my blood; my sleep deceives me.

My bones Whisper Blood Sleep
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From Open House My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I'm naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare.

Open house Foreknown Anguish Self revealed
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words Powerful drug Mankind
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Never made Mistake Life Afterwards
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

Prefer Believe Best Everybody
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

History Taught Stories Forgotten
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Woman's guess More accurate Man's certainty
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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
All islands Shouting lies Across seas Misunderstanding
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

Liars World Worst Own fears
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Take everything Like seriously Yourselves
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I keep six honest serving men they taught me all i knew; Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

Six honest Serving men What Why
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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

No price High Privilege Owning yourself
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Must learn Forgive Man In love
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