The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Marya Mannes
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  1. Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

  2. One is as one is and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

  3. Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

  4. It's never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.

  5. Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

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