I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

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I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.

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Mots clés love marriage lovers

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I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

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I get rational when I panic.

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There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

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The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

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The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.

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Mots clés loss grief

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All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving.
Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits.
Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?"
The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?

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