The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

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Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

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