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It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are
real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution
wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? -- Ralph Emerson

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every
moment.
T. S. Eliot

O, thou art fairer than the evening\'s air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
-Faustus, 1604