“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
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“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.”
― Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.”
― Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
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