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“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
― Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
― Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
“What would he say to her, if he was going to speak truly? He didn't know. Talking was like throwing a baseball. You couldn't plan it out beforehand. You just had to let go and see what happened. You had to throw out words without knowing whether anyone woud catch them -- you had to throw out words you knew no one would catch. You had to send your words out where they weren't yours anymore. It felt better to talk with a ball in your hand, it felt better to let the ball do the talking. But the world, the nonbaseball world, the world of love and sex and jobs and friends, was made of words.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
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