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“Мне казалось, это в порядке вещей. Я тогда не знала, что это был рай. Что такое рай, понимаешь только когда его утратишь, а что такое гнездо – когда из него выпадешь.”
― Jean-Claude Mourlevat, Winter's End

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#2

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

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#3

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, reading, travel

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#4

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: consciousness, dreams, imagination, mind, reading, reality

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#5

“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: reading, writing

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#6

“I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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#7

“But the ultimate truth is that they aren't dead, those people. The writers of books do not truly die; their characters, even the ones who throw themselves in front of trains or are killed in battle, come back to life over and over again. Books are the means to immortality: Plato lives forever, as do Dickens, and Dr. Seuss, Soames Forsyte, Jo March, Scrooge, Anna Karenina, and Vronsky. Over and over again Heathcliff wanders the moors searching for his Cathy. Over and over again Ahab fights the whale. Through them all we experience other times, other places, other lives. We manage to become much more than our own selves. The only dead are those who grow sere and shriveled within, unable to step outside their own lives and into those of others. Ignorance is death. A closed mind is catafalque.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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#8

“Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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#9

“Perhaps we women are more willing to break the ice. Two things that made this possible most often in many of our lives were intimate friendship and reading.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books-reading-friendship

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#10

“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay

tags: abortion, aids, bj, blow-job, church, cunnilingus, essay, essays, fake, family, family-planning, fellatio, habit, habit-quotes, habits, health, hiv, hiv-aids, hiv-and-aids, human-nature, humor, humour, marriage, masturbate, masturbation, onanism, orgasm, orgasms, pleasure, pregnancy, pretense, relationships, religion, saire, sex, sexuality, sexy-humor, unplanned-pregnancy, wedding

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#11

“They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other's keeping and both were unafraid.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

tags: fearless, love, marriage, wedding

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#12

“The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough;”
― Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

tags: bride, jane-austen, marriage, pride-and-prejudice, wedding

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#13

“I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently. I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: marriage, wedding

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#14

“The proposal is the only thing that the guy has control over in the entire wedding deal. It is your one chance to make this moment stand out, not only for you, but for her.”
― Drew Seeley

tags: inspiration, wedding

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#15

“Love loves to love love”
― James Joyce

tags: author-nicole-fortune, dating, dating-advise, fiancé, from-selfie-to-wifey, husband, love, marriage, nicole-fortune, nicole-j-fortune, relationship-tips, relationships, wedding, wedding-day, wife, wifey

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#16

“Reader, I married him.

Ha! I've always wanted to write that!”
― Meg Cabot, Royal Wedding

tags: wedding

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#17

“Tell him the wedding is being prepared, only there won't be any music at our wedding: deacons will sing instead of pipes and mandolins. I won't step out to dance with my bridegroom: they will bear me away. Dark, dark will be my house: of maple wood it will be, and instead of a chimney there will be a cross on its roof!”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

tags: death, star-crossed-lovers, wedding

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#18

“I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and, in truth, I do not know what I have done to deserve the good fortune of becoming Mercédès, husband.”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: happiness, love, marriage, true-love, wedding

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#19

“Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

tags: husband, love, marriage, relationship, romance, wedding, wife

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#20

“But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

tags: engagement, happiness, pearls, romance, tears

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#21

“It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; and it has not been only once; I have had her hopes and exultations to listen to again and again. I have known myself to be divided from Edward forever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. I have had to content against the unkindness of his sister and the insolence of his mother, and have suffered the punishment of an attachment without enjoying its advantages. And all this has been going on at the time when, as you too well know, it has not been my only unhappiness. If you can think me capable of ever feeling, surely you may suppose that I have suffered now.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: attachment, engagement, love, relationships, suffering

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#22

“LADY BRACKNELL

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: character, engagement, humor, marriage, relationships

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#23

“If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

tags: engagement, gratitude, love

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#24

“And try not to make a habit of getting engaged in the first place, Vivvie. It can leade to marriage if you're not careful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

tags: advice, city-of-girls, city-of-girls-quotes, elizabeth-gilbert, elizabeth-gilbert-quotes, engagement, engagement-quotes, funny-quotes, marriage-quotes, single-ladies

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#25

“Is it possible that this stranger has now become everything to me?" she asked herself, and immediately answered, "Yes, everything! He alone is now dearer to me than everything in the world.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: engagement, love

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#26

“The rose I gave you was an emblem of my
heart,' said she; 'would you take it away and
leave me here alone?'

'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked
it?'

'Have I not said enough?”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

tags: alone, engagement, gift, hand, heart, love, rose

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#27

“•Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.”
― Emily Thorne

tags: battle, commitment, death, enemy, engagement, love, revenge-tv-series, war

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#28

“I was simple enough to think, that because my faith was plighted to another, there could be no danger in my being with you; and that the consciousness of my engagement was to keep my heart as safe and sacred as my honour.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: engagement, how-affairs-happen

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#29

“If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: culture, engagement, philosophy, spiritual-warfare

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#30

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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