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> [I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-grant/i-don-t-write-songs-that-don-t-affect-me-on-some-level-because-i/)

[Amy Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-grant/)

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> [“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/so-throw-off-all-desires-remove-all-the-dust-from-your-eyes-be-at/)

[Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/)

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> [“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-a-grey/women-they-were-tricky-business-a-man-had-to-step-carefully-lest-he/)

[T.A. Grey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-a-grey/)

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> [Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-august-von-hayek/even-when-men-approve-of-the-same-arrangements-it-must-be-asked/)

[Friedrich August von Hayek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-august-von-hayek/)

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> [The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/the-engaged-mind-illuminated-by-truth-awakens-awareness-the-engaged/)

[Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/)

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> [“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oriah-mountain-dreamer/it-doesn-t-interest-me-what-you-do-for-a-living-i-want-to-know-what-3/)

[Oriah Mountain Dreamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oriah-mountain-dreamer/)

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> [The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/the-soul-contains-few-secrets-and-longings-which-cannot-be-sensibly/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/i-would-lie-for-hours-by-the-window-gazing-down-upon-the-black-lake/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-don-t-know-what-rituals-my-kids-will-carry-into-adulthood-whether/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

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> [In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-richo/in-the-hero-stories-the-call-to-go-on-a-journey-takes-the-form-of-a/)

[David Richo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-richo/)

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> [“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kilroy-j-oldster/life-is-a-collection-of-memories-and-feelings-mawkish-sentimentally/)

[Kilroy J. Oldster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kilroy-j-oldster/)

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> [“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taylor-rhodes/i-drank-from-the-crisp-mountain-stream-tasting-filtered-sky-with-a/)

[Taylor Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taylor-rhodes/)

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> [“My heart has a way of moving, only, for those I can never be with.. Longing for things that might only occur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-adel/my-heart-has-a-way-of-moving-only-for-those-i-can-never-be-with/)

[Sarah Adel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-adel/)

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> [“I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-valeur/i-think-she-would-have-preferred-being-spared-from-understanding-all/)

[Erik Valeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-valeur/)

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> [The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-shoemaker/the-rise-of-statism-in-our-time-is-the-natural-result-of-the-longing/)

[Sam Shoemaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-shoemaker/)

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> [~Now that you're gone… I lay down on my bed I hear your voice; I dont know why I see your face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/she-s-gone/now-that-you-re-gone-i-lay-down-on-my-bed-i-hear-your-voice-i-dont/)

[She's\_gone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/she-s-gone/)

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> [What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/what-all-the-ads-and-whorescopes-seemed-to-imply-was-that-if-only-you/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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> [“For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/for-boy-however-we-do-praise-ourselves-our-fancies-are-more-giddy-and/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“The late afternoon Sun threw amber and gold across the deep body of the ocean, breaking into unseen luminance across the horizon.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamara-rendell/the-late-afternoon-sun-threw-amber-and-gold-across-the-deep-body-of/)

[Tamara Rendell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tamara-rendell/)

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> [What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/what-but-education-has-advanced-us-beyond-the-condition-of-our/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [“I began to mourn the simplicity of my childhood, the warmth of my family that now seemed lost, years had passed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donal-o-callaghan/i-began-to-mourn-the-simplicity-of-my-childhood-the-warmth-of-my/)

[Donal O'Callaghan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donal-o-callaghan/)

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> [“What we had between us was nothing as simple as longing or sexual desire. It was a hunger for beauty and meaning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-lico-albanese/what-we-had-between-us-was-nothing-as-simple-as-longing-or-sexual/)

[Laurie Lico Albanese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-lico-albanese/)

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> [Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaimy-gordon/never-far-from-a-dining-table-the-characters-in-heather-a-slomski-s/)

[Jaimy Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaimy-gordon/)

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> [“Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. "So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-caine/amelie-seemed-to-focus-on-her-again-for-a-few-seconds-she-regarded/)

[Rachel Caine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-caine/)

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> [“I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kleypas/i-love-you-he-thought-looking-at-win-i-love-every-part-of-you-every/)

[Lisa Kleypas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-kleypas/)

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> [“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amal-el-mohtar/words-are-abstraction-break-off-from-the-green-words-are-patterns-in/)

[Amal El-Mohtar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amal-el-mohtar/)

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> [“fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warsan-shire/fit-in-here-in-my-palm-in-my-shadow-don-t-be-bigger-than-my-idea-of/)

[Warsan Shire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warsan-shire/)

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> [Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/age-has-given-me-the-gift-of-me-it-just-gave-me-what-i-was-always/)

[Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/)

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> [If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-vernon/if-it-wasn-t-for-this-person-s-privacy-i-d-be-able-to-talk-pretty/)

[Justin Vernon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-vernon/)

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> [For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/for-with-my-intuition-i-knew-that-this-man-was-repeating-a-pattern/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

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> [I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/i-have-heard-what-poets-write-about-women-they-rhyme-and-rhapsodize-2/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-biller/men-in-long-term-relationships-we-all-know-how-they-lose-their-mojo/)

[Anna Biller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-biller/)

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> [“I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-dhyan-giten/i-remember-an-insight-that-taught-me-much-about-life-one-day-i-felt/)

[Swami Dhyan Giten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-dhyan-giten/)

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> [“Cardan had grown up in the palace, a wild thing to be cosseted by courtiers and scowled at by the High King.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-black/cardan-had-grown-up-in-the-palace-a-wild-thing-to-be-cosseted-by/)

[Holly Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-black/)

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> [I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabel-allende/i-try-desperately-to-conquer-the-transitory-nature-of-my-existence-to/)

[Isabel Allende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabel-allende/)

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> [“Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/some-people-look-as-if-they-have-lost-their-eagerness-and-passion/)

[Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/)

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> [“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oriah-mountain-dreamer/it-doesn-t-interest-me-what-you-do-for-a-living-i-want-to-know-what/)

[Oriah Mountain Dreamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oriah-mountain-dreamer/)

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> [He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/he-found-himself-remembering-how-on-one-summer-morning-they-two-had/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [“To my amazement, taut and tearless as I was, I saw him hastily mop his eyes with his handkerchief, and in that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vera-brittain/to-my-amazement-taut-and-tearless-as-i-was-i-saw-him-hastily-mop-his/)

[Vera Brittain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vera-brittain/)

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> [“I pushed my pile of papers to one side, stroked Shadow and stared into the fire, longing for the comfort of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-setterfield/i-pushed-my-pile-of-papers-to-one-side-stroked-shadow-and-stared-into/)

[Diane Setterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-setterfield/)

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                        "text": "I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.",
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                        "text": "“So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even for God. Every longing is the same, whether for a big car, or God, or a big house, makes no difference. Longing is the same. Don’t long – just be. Don’t even look – just be! Don’t think! Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything – because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never begins. But then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are.”",
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                        "text": "“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one he wants and getting nothing but scorn in return. What was it about her that drove him crazy? He'd never had such a wild and instantaneous reaction to a woman before.”",
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                        "text": "Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because they are desirable in themselves. The common resistance to the collectivist tide should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the belief in integral freedom is based on an essentially forward-looking attitude and not on any nostalgic longing for the past or a romantic admiration for what has been.",
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                        "text": "The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152",
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                        "text": "“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”",
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                        "text": "The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the \"meaning\" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.",
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                        "text": "“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the wan sky, with stars suspended above. Then a fearfully sweet, overpowering emotion would take hold of me—as though all the nighttime beauty looked at me accusingly, stars and mountain and lake longing for someone who understood the beauty and agony of their mute existence, who could express it for them, as though I were the one meant to do this and as though my true calling were to give expression to inarticulate nature in poems.”",
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                        "text": "I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.",
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                        "text": "In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.",
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                        "text": "“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our unfilled longing propels us into committing senseless acts of self-sabotage and then we desperately seek redemption from our slippery selves by building monuments to the human spirit. We employ a bewildering blend of conscious and unconscious materials to construct synoptic testaments to our temporal existence. We labor on the canvas of our choosing to scrawl our inimitable mark, fanatically toiling to escape a sentence of total obliteration along with our impending mortality.”",
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                        "text": "“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could change your entire perspective of the world. I only ever understood the wistfulness of it, and the longing and the frothy, violent bits. The mixed up, rained on parts. The escaped bits that smudge and bleed through. Slowly, I am coming to terms with how vulnerable I am to you, flat on my back like a submissive wolf pup. Daisy petals line your eyelashes, juice of a nectarine flavors your tongue. The side of your mouth twitches, hazy dreamscapes overtaking your mind while we bathe in the glorious autumn devastation.”",
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                        "text": "“My heart has a way of moving, only, for those I can never be with.. Longing for things that might only occur in Never-Gonna-Happen-Land. With the passage of time, I’ve come to realize that yearning for the impossible has always been his special gift and seeking it will always be my eternal curse.”",
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                        "text": "“I think she would have preferred being spared from understanding all the physical signals one hopes the world will notice and reward with caresses. It’s the body and its longing that bends the mind and teaches the eye to calculate the distance to one’s desires so often out of reach.”",
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                        "text": "~Now that you're gone… I lay down on my bed I hear your voice; I dont know why I see your face on the ceiling, smiling down at me. it seems like 1000 years since we've talked. I cant believe that your're gone. I'm trying to figure out ur last words to me. I feel the tears roll down my face. I quiet sob escapes my breath. I start to shake. I feel so alone. looking back on our lives that had ended too fast. I feel like I'm starving to death nothing can bring you back to life. my longing for you is a waste of time. but I cant help it. I want you so bad. its driving me insane. in the end, I knoew that I'll never see your face. that I'll fade out of this place. that I'll find another you again. but for now I'm going to cry. I'm going to whisper your name during the night. I'm going to see you every time I close my eyes. and though your're not going to come back. the memory of you will be what keeps me alive. < 3",
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                        "text": "“For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. ... For women are as roses, whose fair flow'r Being once display'd doth fall that very hour. Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so! To die, even when they to perfection grow!”",
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                        "text": "What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?",
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                        "text": "Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.",
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                        "text": "“Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. \"So I recall,\" she said. \"Not all wars are waged with bullets and swords, indeed. Some are wars of wills and ideas. It's good we both remember that.\" The smile faded. \"But not all ideas win the war, and not all wills are strong enough. Darkness can descend so easily.”",
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                        "text": "“I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask. And it seemed so easy, once he capitulated. It seemed natural and right. Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”",
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