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“Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.”

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker is renowned for her sharp, witty, and often satirical verse, which showcases her distinctive voice in American literature. more

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker, an American poet, playwright, and critic, was born on August 22, 1893, and died on June 7, 1967. Known for her wit, satire, and humor, she is a prominent figure in 20th-century American literature. more

“Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?”

Made Matter Reality Pain Lying Night Hours Differences Morning Gone Week Awareness Endless Passing Passings Sunday Friday Closing Incessant Awareness Of Life

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.”

Sorrow Crosses Roots Islands Weeping Sorrow Love

Book:100 Love Sonnets

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

“Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.”

Knows World Firsts Dream Faces Imagine Reflection First Time Mirrors Stranger Forty Your Face Fright

Author:Milan Kundera

“And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.”

Should Wells Looks Turns Fall Tears Please Kissing Dresses Ill Ease Fearful Brides Dew I Loved You Fetch

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.”

Trying Heart Faces Found Amount Waste Resources Adversity Depth Storm Enormous Locked Defeated Locked Up

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. “I can’t go back. Not yet. I can’t leave.” And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. “You don’t have to,” she said, rocking me. “You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, not anymore.” And I cried.”

Want Said I Can Lying Hair Arms Shoulders Chests Cried Mum

Author:Lucy Christopher

“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”

Humans Turns Mistake Human Nature Judging Wind Blame Excuse Misdeeds Blame Someone

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?”

Giving Persons Ends Sometimes Reason Feelings Struggle And Love Complexes Cures Destroying Traps Deep Down Sometimes Love

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings”

Life Action Effort Sun Late Wings Spares Traveler Having Strength

Author:Rumi

“There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo”

Way Differences Path Trouble Findings Going Out Solo

Author:R. A. Salvatore

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