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And I. I too.
Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.
Anne Sexton
deceit
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O pale, pale now, those rosy lips,
I aft hae kissed sae fondly; ...
Robert Burns
death | grief
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The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stret ...
Lucy Stone
disappointment | social/political activism | subordination of women
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire
feelings
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"How goes it?" Heart replied,
"Right as a Ribstone Pippin!"
Hilaire Belloc
apple trees and apples | rewards
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I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
Hilaire Belloc
heart | friends
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This is just a job like any other job. I do it the best I can. It's never enough but I do it. When I go home, I don't take this st ...
A.I. Bezzerides
police | jobs | loneliness
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend b ...
Elizabeth Bowen
absence | friends | friendship
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Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky:
Robert Bridges
morning
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Open my heart and you will see,
Graved inside of it, "Italy."
Robert Browning
Italy and the Italians
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