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“You can spy anyone, and anywhere in the world, but that shows, you do not trust. All such attempts block and break all form of relationship. You become yourself untrustworthy.”
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“As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.”
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“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
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“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is.”
― The Canterville Ghost
― The Canterville Ghost
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