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“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.”

Years Soul Able Suffering Our Lives Goes On One Day Intense Unexpected Latter Bitterness Noticing Bearable

Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.”

Knows Seems Motivational Gone Human Condition

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.”

Hiking Convicts Machetes

Author:Susan Orlean

“Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!”

Novel Written

Author:Michael Crichton

“If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.”

People Ifs Way Littles Hard Found Left Enjoy Gone Middle Dog One Day Nails Acid Left Alone Middle Aged Withered Small Dogs

Book:The Grass is Singing

Source: The Grass is Singing

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

People Hurt Too Much Childhood Decided Diaries

Author:Anais Nin

“Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.”

Ifs Way Feels Years Wells Stills I Can Enough Fall Left Half Wonder Imagine Huge Happenings Wake Up Shame Wide Gaps New Year Admitting Shrinking

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the tips of my fingers: the sand from Commons Park. Oh Cass, I thought. I miss you so, so much.”

Hands Next Missing Fingers Parks Sand Pockets Jackets

Author:Sarah Dessen

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