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Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight — Lana Del Rey
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every… — Virginia Woolf
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. — Oscar Wilde
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. — Lana Del Rey
I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except… — Peter S. Beagle
He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk… — Cassandra Clare
I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must… — Amitav Ghosh
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. — George Orwell
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They… — Betty Friedan
Any idiot can stand in front of a target," I say. "It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is… — Veronica Roth
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the… — Dr. Seuss
Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in… — Gayle Forman
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not… — Pat Conroy
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love. — Susan Sontag
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? — Alan Moore
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde
When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many… — Miranda July
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on… — Daniel Handler
There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or… — J.A. Redmerski
For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely,"… — Cassandra Clare

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