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And so it ends,
We who were lovers may be friends.
I have some weeks in which to steel
My heart and teach myself to feel
Only a sober tenderness
Where once was passion's loveliness.

— Vita Sackville-West

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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

In Your Garden Again (1953)

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

The Land (1926)

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.

Twelve Days (1928)

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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