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Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.


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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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I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

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When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.



I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.



Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.



I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.



So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?

So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?



I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

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