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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde
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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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