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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

—John Galsworthy

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I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

—Frank Sinatra

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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

—Leslie Fiedler

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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

—Dorothy Parker

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

—Samuel Johnson

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One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.

—Franklin P. Jones

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Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

—George Eliot

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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

—Gordon R. Dickson

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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

—David T. Wolf

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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride

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We fall forward to succeed.

—Mary Kay Ash

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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