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Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."

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"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."

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Akiroq Brost

"What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size."

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Akiroq Brost

"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."

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Akiroq Brost

"No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness."

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Akiroq Brost

"I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made."

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"Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life."

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Akiroq Brost

"We are all made complete by our pain."

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Akiroq Brost

"Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure."

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Akiroq Brost

"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?"

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Akiroq Brost

"We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore, it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too."

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Akiroq Brost

"Pain is a horribly wonderful gift."

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"All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
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"We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,The path of its departure still is free.Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;Nought may endure but Mutability!"
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"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
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"I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity."
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"O weep for Adonis - He is dead.' 'Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life."
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"Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
"And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay."
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"I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity."
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"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
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