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“Life is also meaningful without being married’, she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, ‘one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make”
― The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
― The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Money can't buy happiness, but it allows one to endured unhappiness in relative comfort.”
― A Face in the Crowd
― A Face in the Crowd
“I yearned for everything long gone.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
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