We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.


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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
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There are people in many other states who are cheering us.
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Unfortunately, California and some of the other states couldn't put it together until later.
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Veterinarians from other states have told us they feel this will definitely instigate other veterina...
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Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people a...
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We have exported a lot of our unemployment rate to other states.
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It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
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We lay there completely bared to each other. Fully clothed but our souls naked!
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In some cases, we've literally known each other all our lives.
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DANA BOENTE
We wanted a variety. We have people from other states.
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There are other ways to live forever.
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There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.
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Member states are sometimes tempted to seek to protect their industrial or financial crown jewels fr...
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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We touch other peoples lives simply by existing.
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Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see...
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We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
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Either one of us is going to be happy to see one of us playing. We always talk to each other about h...
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Our rates are lower than in those other states. Perhaps us having outside counsel has helped us,
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We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recog...
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Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
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Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.
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They were definitely given the opportunity to seek other shelter.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other peopl...
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As Zimbabweans we cannot go it alone and it is imperative that we seek to work with other internatio...
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Always keep your heart open to a spiritual pilgrimage. By seeking the sacred in the souls of other p...
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We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile
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We saved his life. And we probably saved other people's lives.
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We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of...
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If there's some other way to structure it, some other best practice that some other community has fo...
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They will be forced to hitchhike to other states, jeopardizing their own safety. Some of them talk a...
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True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some o...
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I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
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I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too muc...
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They've done a good job of getting 'Nevada' out there prominently. We don't always pick up the other...
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We've known each other most of our lives.
DARREL HOLLAND
This is unique to Florida, and we expect it to be copied in other states.
CHUCK WOLFE
When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.
MARY E. DEMUTH
There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us.
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It wasn't enough and some of the other regulars didn't [participate] because of the hurricane damage...
LOU CONFESSORE
If we do a new plant, we would consider Michigan, along with other states.
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I am concerned about what kind of fallout there might be and what it forces us into in other states.
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It was like we had known each other all our lives.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
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The things we can do to change other people’s lives will change our lives and it will change our c...
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Culturally in Utah, I think we are probably better prepared than other states.
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When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation...
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation...
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We need some other guys to step up.
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Yes, Kuwait and other states in the region.
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True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.
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He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
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We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.
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The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.
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Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to...
ANAïS NIN
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is t...
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ...
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h...
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence...
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m...
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o...
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo...
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You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever...
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
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We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I write emotional algebra.
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She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ...
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
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