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“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”
― A Farewell to Arms
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”
― A Farewell to Arms
“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
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“I want it to smell of magnolias instead
of peanuts and I want my shoes to crunch on the same gravel that Lee's
boots crunched on. There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no
poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books,
houses--bound for dust--mortal--”
― The Beautiful and Damned
of peanuts and I want my shoes to crunch on the same gravel that Lee's
boots crunched on. There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no
poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books,
houses--bound for dust--mortal--”
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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