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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Men War Wandered Women
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Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Optimism Last Resort Despair
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when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Person Implores Reasonable View
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Phrase Books Universal Eternal
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death Enemy Everything Alright
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

Friendship Philosophy Value Survival
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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger, but faces it head on

Genuine Forgiveness Anger
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If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Painful Criticize Friends Pleasure
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People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

People Truth Recognize See
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It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

Hard Occasions Forceful Sublime
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening Talking Powers Human
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Love Linger Longest Hold
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It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Difficult Woman Grateful Premise
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Rare Nature Intense Discussion
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It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

Experience Crisis Comes Expect
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Paint Beautiful Pictures Important
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The constant happiness is curiosity.

Constant Happiness Curiosity
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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Remember Man Room Leaves
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Life Places Happened
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

You Parents Real Humilations
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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

Few People Treasure Hang
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He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

He Wanted Away Her
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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Love World You Well
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Life Grand For People
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.

We Some Forgiven Never Ourselves
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

Every Year Child Become
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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Who Say Perfect Poet
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I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

I Watching Sit Weep
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

And Warm Commotion Busy
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

It's Just Life Beat
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Books may well be the only true magic.

Books May well True magic
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

The moon Always jealous Heat The day
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When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always

I walk With you Where I go
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Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Trouble Like love It comes Unannounced
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

The weather Love Two elements Can never
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Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Pride Funny thing Truly worthless Appear
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

The weak Are cruel The strong No need
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

Be betrayed Your sleep Whole world Dreaming
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Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Every problem Solution The outcome Originally
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

About luck It's good Bad Some perspective
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

Riddle Love Everything It gives
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Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Knows One thing For certain Never judge
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I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for

I dream A love Even time Lie down
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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Sometimes words Drew blood They cut Your tongue
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

The joy Reading fiction The novel Belongs
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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

People say Save yourself Your ways Be yourself
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

Crying Riding A bike Quickly forget
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Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

Some things Wish away Think Become part of
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Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were.

Some things They change Never Do return
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Knew what Yearn for A life So distant
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