Crystal

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Crystal’s Quotes

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

tags: love, passion

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: discomfort, force-of-nature, marriage, matrimony, nature, pleasure, self-deception

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