Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
("The Portrait of a Lady")
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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There was a dumb misery about him that irritated her; there was a manly staying of his hand that made her heart beat faster. She felt her agitation rising, and she said to herself that she was angry in the way a woman is angry when she has been in the wrong.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper.
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