Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
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There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
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