„I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.“
— Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888
„I remember walking to the cricket ground with the team, sometimes trying to feel, and sometimes trying not to feel, that I was one of them; and the conviction I had, which comes so quickly to a boy, that nothing in the world mattered except that we should win.“
Leslie Poles Hartley1
1895 - 1972Publicidade
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And then I try to please them so,
But how far can this pleasing go?“
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— Colette 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873 - 1954
Context: Toby-Dog: It seems to me that of the two of us it's you they make the most of, and yet you do all the grumbling.
Kiki-The-Demure: A dog's logic, that! The more one gives the more I demand.
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Kiki-The-Demure: Not at all. I have a right to everything.
Toby-Dog: To everything? And I?
Kiki-The-Demure: I don't imagine you lack anything, do you?
Toby-Dog: Ah, I don't know. Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come...
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— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
„Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself
without anyone noticing.“
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I Cry,
Cause I am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form
I Cry because my heart is torn.
I find it difficult to carry on.
If I had an ear to confide in,
I would cry among my treasured friend,
but who do you know that stops that long,
to help another carry on.
The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.
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so painful and sad.
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I Cry
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— Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888
