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She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

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But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.

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Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

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What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

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She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you. Waddington, smiling, translated the question. She says I'm good. As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue, Kitty mocked.

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

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She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

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This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

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He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

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There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

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