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The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?


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We are each the love of someone's life.



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Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.



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Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?



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So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.



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When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?



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It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.



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When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.



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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.



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I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.



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