Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long. - Susan Kay

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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Susan Kay

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long.

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My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.

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Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him. . . Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.

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All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

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In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

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Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

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