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I am waylaid by beauty.


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But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.



Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.



My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!



Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.



I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.



They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now



There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.



I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.



Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.



Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.





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Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.



I think audiences can relate to the guys I'm playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about who they are, or who they're dating.

I think audiences can relate to the guys I'm playing, those large-and-in-charge idiots. Or maybe I just make them feel better about who they are, or who they're dating.



If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.



Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.



All Quiet on the Western Front.

All Quiet on the Western Front.



This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.



Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.



I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.



I enjoyed breaking down my matches, because wrestling fans really like to know what I'm actually thinking, and why certain things needed to happen at a certain time.

I enjoyed breaking down my matches, because wrestling fans really like to know what I'm actually thinking, and why certain things needed to happen at a certain time.



If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.




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