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For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our...

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Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed ag...

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The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

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E. M. ForsterThe Life to Come and Other Stories

Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or ...

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their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. T...

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This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do...

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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...

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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: ...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...

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I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...

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It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before t...

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The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then ...

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There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love w...

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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eye...

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He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on ...

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I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we wer...

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Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means tha...

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[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between...

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It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence o...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Nor do I want the woman that I’m married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doin...

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What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the ear...

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We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...

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Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I ca...

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What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...

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The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn’t a problemB...

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Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...

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How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated pl...

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Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

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Anton ChekhovThe Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he...

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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anythi...

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