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"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."
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"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
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"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."
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"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."
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"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."
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"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters."
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"The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns."
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"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."
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"There's some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities: but I haveThat honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,With thoughts so qualified as your charitiesShall best instruct you, measure me; and soThe king's will be perform'd!"
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"I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,And "cancer of the pancreas" to her."
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"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."
Body
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
Love
"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."
Marriage
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."
Life
"Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond."
Wit
"You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words."
Thought
"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."
Criticism
"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."
Despair
"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."
Love
"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."
Confidence
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