Each time you happen to me all over again.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
There is always light behind the clouds.
Reader, I married him.
What a lark! What a plunge!
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.
O brave new worldThat has such people in ’t!
Things do not change; we change.
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.
Work is love made visible.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I can resist everything except temptation.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
My good opinion once lost is lost for ever.
Till this moment, I never knew myself.
All children, except one, grow up.
You see, but you do not observe.
All mankind love a lover.
Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 · Chapter IX: The Mock Turtle’s Story
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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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