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She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free. What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to
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“Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.”
― Antony and Cleopatra
― Antony and Cleopatra

“If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?”
― Black and White
― Black and White

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

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