We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

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"The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."

- W. Somerset Maugham

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"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"

- W. Somerset Maugham

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"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

- W. Somerset Maugham

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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

- W. Somerset Maugham

Healing

"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."

- W. Somerset Maugham

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- Beauty and the Beast

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"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."

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"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."

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"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."

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