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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
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“The very thing that distinguishes us both is that I wouldn't hesitate to choose you in every lifetime, but you wouldn't even choose me in this one and although I gave you my flesh and bones, I know I cannot love you into loving me.
So there you are overflowing with my love and here I am pleading for a droplet of yours or whatever I could salvage.
But there must come a time where you recognize that to grieve someone hurts a lot less than forcing them to be a part of you. And I know I should not beg for love but just once I wanted for someone to be afraid of losing me.”
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So there you are overflowing with my love and here I am pleading for a droplet of yours or whatever I could salvage.
But there must come a time where you recognize that to grieve someone hurts a lot less than forcing them to be a part of you. And I know I should not beg for love but just once I wanted for someone to be afraid of losing me.”
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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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