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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

—Elizabeth Bowen

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What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?

—Maggie O'Farrell in After You'd Gone

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Whether or not he still wanted me, I knew he wouldn't want anyone else to have me.

—Penelope Douglas in Rival

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

—T. S. Eliot

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Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

—Edwin Way Teale

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If you love someone, if you think you could make them happy for the rest of your life together, then nothing should stop you. You should be prepared to take them as they are and deal with the consequences. Relationships aren't neat and clean. They're ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them. That's what I think. I think if you truly love someone, you accept the circumstances; you don't hide behind them.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Maybe in Another Life

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

—Stendhal

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The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

—Courtney Summers in Cracked Up to Be 

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The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.

—Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass

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Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

—Evan Esar

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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

—Mahalia Jackson

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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

—William Morris

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Manners are love in a cool climate.

—Quentin Crisp

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Your life is your party. You get to choose how you invite people and experiences and things into it.

—Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass

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