I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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