The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
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VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
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PIERCE BROWN A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
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VICTOR HUGO They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember i...
JODI PICOULT He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
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TEKOA MANNING Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
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NICHOLAS SPARKS When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Clyde is a hard-working young man. He has the will to win. He never wants to lose. Victor settled in...
CHAD JACKSON Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.
THOMAS FULLER I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
DOUG HUTCHISON I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi...
GILDA RADNER They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to...
EMMA CLINE Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantag...
GIRL A Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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STEPHEN LEACOCK He cupped his hand around her cheek, and she marveled at how perfectly his palm fit her cheek. His f...
SUMMER HINES Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
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TAMMARA WEBBER Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
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GRAEME SIMSION This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
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When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
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GRATEFUL DEAD The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
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