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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
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― Kafka on the Shore
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