Beauty is a short-lived tyranny

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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

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To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

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Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

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True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. ― Dorothy Parker

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I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. ― Anne Frank

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We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved. ― C. JoyBell C.

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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

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Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody's going to hate you for it. _ Shane Dawson

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