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"Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?"
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"Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!"
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"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved."
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"It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me."
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"Sadness has a depth; it can make you more sensitive and aware."
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"She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one's childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she has lived a debauched life, married a jailbird or, worse still, a divorced man."
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"Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion."
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"I told Doreen I would not go to the show or the luncheon or the film premiere, but that I would not go to Coney Island either, I would stay in bed. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired."
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"Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness."
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"Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard."
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"Without a song, life is a sorrow."
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"I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money."
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"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."
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"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."
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"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."
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"Without a song, each day would be a century."
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"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."
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"Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help."
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"Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?"
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"The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks."
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"Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help."
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