"...but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself."

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"I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers."

— D. H. Lawrence

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— Basshunter

Music1984

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"I want to back the favourite, please. My sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways!"

— Donald McGill

Art1875–1962

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"The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my fa…"

— Sarah Dessen

Literature1970

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