Natalie
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I paid little attention to it; when one grows up so close to beauty, it is easy to dismiss.
“But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
― Mariana
― Mariana
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