What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

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