The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
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The world has different owners at sunrise ... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.
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Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
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