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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young.And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a pe...more

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I can't look at everything hard enough!

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Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the o...more

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All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarc...more

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she had never realized any love sa...more

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You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not un...more

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Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by th...more