“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
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“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
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“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”
― Pygmalion / My Fair Lady
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”
― Pygmalion / My Fair Lady
“HIGGINS
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
PICKERING
At what, for example?
HIGGINS
Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.”
― Pygmalion
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
PICKERING
At what, for example?
HIGGINS
Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.”
― Pygmalion
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