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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

Aidan Chambers

A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Difficult Explain Knowing Only Sometimes Yourself
There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Allow Know Yourself never Time Want
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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Literature Read Reader
Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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Attractive Beautiful Become Celebrity Conventionally Fact Impressive More
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Always Being Giving Keep Part Should Somebody Yourself
They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Change Depending Proportion Shape Sometimes Unchange
The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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Devil Emotional Faithful Loyal One Strong Weakness Against
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Better Flow Let Go
She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Beautiful Look Past Pat Quiet Sight Tense Using
If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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Against Argue Case Faithfully Logical Rational
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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Always Being Crush Flood Flow Love Real River Sea Strength Tide
How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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Accept Case Clever Imagine Know Mind Sometimes
If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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Always Ask Believe Boy Man Right Want
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Future History Made Past Path Present
I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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Away Book Entertainment Pass People Throw Time Write
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
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Book Doing Important Money People Size Writing
I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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Actually Being Good Love Term Thinking True
Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Dislike Even Exist Least Name Saying Speak
As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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Alive Anyone Feel Help Herself Know More Need Seeming Someone Think Unsettele
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Page Paragraph Puff Struggle Well Word
Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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Clever Imagine Know Mind Same Someone Strange Thing Two
And trust dies from ifs and buts
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But Dies From Trust
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought
The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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Always Ebbing Fancy Goes Infatuation Love Passing Proof Thing
All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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Already Ever Love More Something Think Time
Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Against Strongest Them Those Use Weakness

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