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“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
― Marcel Proust

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
― Marcel Proust

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
― Marcel Proust

“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.”
― Marcel Proust

“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.”
― Marcel Proust

“The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.”
― Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove

“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions”
― Marcel Proust

“Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.”
― Marcel Proust

“I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I walk down the hallway and go into my room and call it a day and it calls me something else.”
― Sam Pink, Person

“My history is the history of things imagined and not-happened.”
― Sam Pink, Person

“from the poem Holographic Personality Disgrace:

Some people are such assholes that saying, "Look, again, I'm sorry I cut off my thumb and glued it to your baby's head because I thought you'd like him better as a unicorn" means nothing to them.”
― Sam Pink