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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."
"Yes" I said, "they come back, but then they have forgotten".
There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said that to you. For you rose to your feet as well and looked at me, affectionately and very surprised. You took me by the shoulders. "What's good is not forgotten; I will not forget you," you said, and as you did so you gazed intently at me as if to memorise my image.”
― Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

“...My husband made my dreams come true, and because he could do that I married him."

Then he says softly, as if to himself, "But what about love?"
She heard that. A slight smile comes to her lips.
"Do you still have all the ideals, all the ideals that you took to that distant world with you? Are they all still intact , or have some of them died or withered away? Haven't they been torn out of you by force and flung in the dirt, where thousands of wheels carrying vehicles to their owners' destination in life crushed them? Or have you lost none of them?”
― Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”
― Paulo Coelho