Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Kahlil Gibran
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth,...
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Unknown
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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George Eliot
To say goodbye is to die a little.
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Raymond Chandler
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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Jack Kerouac
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An English teacher at school once said to her, 'Alice, one thing I hope you never find out is that a broken heart hurts physically.' Nothing she has ever experienced has prepared her for the pain of this. Most of the time her heart feels...
All I was aware of was this hole, this gaping hole where my heart should have been. I read somewhere once that your heart is supposed to be the same size as your clenched fist, but this hole felt far bigger. It seemed to expand...
She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him
