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Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there. ↗

— Adam Young

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From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip... ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you. ↗

— Beth Kephart

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Do you want to be with someone who loves you for something that isn’t really you? - Jane ↗

— Eileen Cook

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign. ↗

— John Donne

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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea) ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

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A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way. ↗

— Melissa Nathan

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How could you begin?’ said she. ‘I can comprehend your going on when you had once made a beginning, but what could set you off in the first place?’ ‘I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which had laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. ↗

— Jane Austen

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