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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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secret
heart
love
hidden-treasure
william-goldman
the-princess-bride
walls
garden
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William Goldman |
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Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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hatred
misattributed-to-isaac-newton
understanding
sympathy
racism
men
hate
empathy
compassion
love
inspirational
culture-wars
bridges
misattributed
intolerance
cultures
walls
tolerance
bigotry
culture
separation
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Joseph Fort Newton |
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But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
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love
truth
dam
trickle
walls
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Paulo Coelho |
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication--we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.
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Kay Redfield Jamison |
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[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.
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loss
friendship
ender
walls
separation
game
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Orson Scott Card |
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Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
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walls
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Jeanette Winterson |
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We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.
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spirit
walls
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Tim O'Brien |
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So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.
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people
only-me
walls
worlds
worry
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Markus Zusak |
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Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.
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walls
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun? Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken. Like the light. Like me. I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one. I am surrounded by walls. I have just replaced one box for another.
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wrong
light
claustrophobic
unnatural
metal
walls
broken
images
important
sky
sun
shattered
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