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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

--William Barclay

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Pretend you’re Chopin and I’ll be George Sand,
We’re on the Grand Canal and, oh baby, it’s grand!
Let’s mention Walkures and helmeted knights,
I’m beautiful Bruennhilde, you’re Siegfried in tights.

--Cole Porter, Let's Talk About Love

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Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys.

--Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys

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And If I Say I Really Loved You
And Was Glad You Came Along.
If You Were Here Today.
For You Were In My Song.

--Paul McCartney (for John Lennon), Here Today

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Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

--Song of Solomon 2:15