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1 " I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you. "
― Ernest Hemingway , The Garden of Eden
2 " Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. "
3 " When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous. "
4 " Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it. "
5 " You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief? "
6 " I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word. "
7 " Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong. "
8 " Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again. "
9 " There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make. "
10 " Please understand and love me. "
11 " You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark. "
12 " Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them. "
13 " They are strong,” David said. ”But there’s a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind. "
14 " It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you cared about nothing else and other things seemed inexistent. "
15 " He felt as though he were hailing a ship. "
16 " In that way they really were friends, understanding in their basic disagreement, trusting in their complete distrust and enjoying one another’s company. "
17 " He held her close and hard and inside himself he said goodbye and then goodbye and goodbye. "
18 " I like to see you in the morning all new and strange. "
19 " When it’s right you can’t remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelievable surprise. You can’t believe you did it. When it’s once right you never can do it again. You only do it once for each thing. And you’re only allowed so many in your life. "
20 " He wrote it exactly and the sinister part only showed as the light feathering of a smooth swell on a calm day marking the reef beneath. "