“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.”
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after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.”
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“I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”
― A Room With a View
― A Room With a View
“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.”
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
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“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us. The things are assuredly not of this life; no woman of Leonardo's could have anything so vulgar as a "story." She did develop most wonderfully day by day.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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