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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
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― The Importance of Being Earnest
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