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It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.
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courage
affair
breakdown
celibacy
celibate
chaste
enstrangement
falling-in-love-with-a-beast
final-decision
lock-up
love-affair
mercilless
michael-bassey-johnson
padlock
key
breakup
apart
divorce
parting
single
falling-in-love
end
cheating
sea
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Michael Bassey Johnson |
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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universe
saves
cheshire
single
wonderland
cat
soul
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Lewis Carroll |
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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marry
single
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Thomas Hardy |
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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marriage
relationships
freedom
captivity
married-life
single
matrimony
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Michel de Montaigne |
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She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.
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determined
homesickness
single
lonely
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Stephen King |
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You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.
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happiness
love
self-acceptance
single
contentment
couple
self-esteem
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.
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spinsterhood
spinster
single
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Lisa Kleypas |
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One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
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marriage
work
god
life
love
potential
calling
single
singleness
christian
young
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Elizabeth George |
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I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.
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marriage
feminism
spinster
single
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Kate Atkinson |
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I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's . I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.
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metaphor
left-out
unloved
the-message-to-the-planet
iris-murdoch
outsider
single
misery
sad
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Iris Murdoch |
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Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?
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nausea
single
sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.
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sweet-valley
single
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Francine Pascal |
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"...you needs uh man." Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them..."
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single-woman
single
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Zora Neale Hurston |