People can cry much easier than they can change.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
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