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What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

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When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even su...more

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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

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The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.

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‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am,...more

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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

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For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own brig...more

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They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

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The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, ...more

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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmu...more

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...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in...more

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Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

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. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.