“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.”
― The Bridges of Madison County
― The Bridges of Madison County
“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. ”
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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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