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Paula
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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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