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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county o...more

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There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all th...more

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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

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Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was b...more

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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands ...more

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Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone...

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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

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He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatom...more

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You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

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If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from you...more

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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don...more

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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should ...more

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My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't...more

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Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out an...more