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“Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.”

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“Across my life only one word will be written: "waste" - waste of life, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.”

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“He loved the interminable winter nights, when the dissatisfied wind mewed through the keyhole, and gusts of acrid smoke were driven down through the chimney; the imperfect silence when you awoke, as of a conversation hastily lulled, objects being hastily replaced. ‘Blow, blow thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.’ Why was it that he felt…

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“His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.”

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Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be…

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“Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.”

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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat…

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“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat…

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“I love you, because I have seen your soul.”

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty…

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“The following evening John left with Lady Shorne for the south of France, without so much as a word to me." Alexa felt as…

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