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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
― Barnacle Love
― Barnacle Love
“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”
― Sand and Foam
― Sand and Foam
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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