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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately..." - John Steinbeck

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting..." - E. E. Cummings

"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody...." - J.D. Salinger

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets..." - Arthur Miller

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it...." - Ernest Hemingway

"I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They...
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"Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost..." - Leo Tolstoy

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of...
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"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else...." - William Faulkner

"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words...." - T.S. Elliot