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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,”
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― The Alchemist
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