Oh, the secret life of man and woman --dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
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She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasnt boring.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.
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[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
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