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• Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Morning, Stars

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 2003.

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• Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

  Debra Evans

  Dream, Expectations, Heaven

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• How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
  To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
  As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
  Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Winter, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Norman R. Shapiro (2000). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal: A Bilingual Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

  Sofia Coppola

  Touching, Feelings, Melancholy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Wine, Bottles

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess bittersweet is probably my favorite tone, as a lover of Woody Allen and Federico Fellini and the French New Wave. You know, old Hollywood, sad movies. I guess it's my picture of suburban life, a lot of it being very, very lonely. I wanted to have that infused into the feeling of it.

  Greg Mottola

  Lonely, Feelings, Lovers

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• Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.

  Julie Plec

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Brother

  "Vampire Diaries: Nina Dobrev Won't Return for Season 7" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2015.

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• We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Delight, Kind, Misfortunes Of Others

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• I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Girl, Doctors

  "Sarah Silverman: 'There are jokes I made 15 years ago I would absolutely not make today'". Interview with Sophie Heawood, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2017.

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• I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Believe, Love Is, Young Love

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

  Richard Bach

  Sweet Love, Humble, Lovely

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.187, Dell

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• I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

  Eric Burdon

  Bitter

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• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  Iggy Azalea

  Children, Memories, Dad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

  Anne Carson

  Running, Want, Moments

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• It's always bittersweet when you have a show that you own, that's against you. It's against one of our favorite comedies for NBC. And yes, that's part of the business model. House was on the Fox network for a number of years and was such a great business for the NBC-owned studio. That's part of what we're also trying to build. Hopefully, Mindy will help do that for us.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Nbc, Years, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

  Ani DiFranco

  Jobs, Nice, Littles

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.

  Alice Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Teaching

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• To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

  Amy Grant

  Thinking, Doe, Joyful

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• Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Cooking, Chocolate

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• There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

  Jacob Latimore

  War, Epic, Artist

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• One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

  Tim Burton

  Passion, Trying, Quality

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• In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Horse, Memories, Men

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.247, F+W Media, Inc.

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• There are no words for how much I will miss her, but I try to kiss her so that she'll know. I try to kiss her to tell her the whole story of my love, the way I dreamed of her when she was dead, the way that every other girl seemed like a mirror that showed me her face. The way my skin ached for her. The way that kissing her made me feel like I was drowning and like I was being saved all at the same time. I hope she can taste all that, bittersweet, on my tongue.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Kissing, Mirrors

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• Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.

  Adyashanti

  Teacher, Hurt, Rip

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