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You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.
Merle Shain
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Merle Shain
Age: 53 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 1
Died: 1989
Died: January 1
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City of Toronto
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The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.
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It takes great generosity to accept generosity.
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The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.
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Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.
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The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.
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It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.
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There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.
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The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
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Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.
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Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.
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Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.
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The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.
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you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.
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