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Love cannot be measured by its duration.


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Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.



If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.



And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.



You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.



England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.



Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.



I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.



Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.



The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.



How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.





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No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.



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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.



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If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.

If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.



Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.



Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.



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I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.




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