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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Petrarch

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  I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

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  Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

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