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She's engaged but not in love. I've discovered there are so many. They're dreamers, those who've waited for their prince charming and not seeing him arrive, started to think they had been wrong. They started to think that their prince charming fell from his horse and is now in the local hospital's recovery ward.
Taken by the fear of being left alone and by the need of some tenderness, they hooked up with the white horse. You recognize them immediately when you meet them, they're those who you can sometimes see looking through the window. It's undoubtedly harder to want to be with someone to not be left alone and behaving like proper fiancées, intead of being so naturally.

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Don't you think Hindley would be proud of his son, if he could see him? Almost as proud as I am of mine. But there's this difference, one is gold put to the use of paving stones; and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost — rendered worse than unavailing.

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What's that feeling that comes to you when you further away in a car from someone and you see them becoming smaller in the plain 'til they become little spots that vanish? It's the world that too big overwhelms us, it's a Goodbye. But in the meantime it projects itself forward towards a new, wild adventure underneath the sky.

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"Ah, well, Snape... Harry Potter, you know... we've all got a bit of a blind spot where he's concerned.

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"So young," he said finally, "to be fighting so many."

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It's really important that you understand this. It's about what's in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is. Accepting it. It's about being true to it, never mind the pain. Because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

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The train arrived an hour late. But what is the use of arriving to an appointment on time, when you know that the person you love more than your own life will never come?

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Not always is misoginy a clue of critical sensibility and intelligence. Sometimes it is only the fruit of homosexuality.

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Words are tears stopped with writing.
Tears are words who have to urgently gush out.

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"Excellent! "I cried.
" Elementary," said he.