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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when...  
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.  
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact...  
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.  
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations ...  
It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's alm...  
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets whe...  
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the ne...  
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.  
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in hi...  
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.  
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostiliti...  
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blot...  
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, q...  
We are minor in everything but our passions.  
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.  
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live u...