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When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
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I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
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Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.
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Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.
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I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.
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Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.
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There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.
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Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.
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Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compat..
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People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.
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