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"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

"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."

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

"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."

"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."

"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!"

"I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time."
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"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."

"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon."

"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."
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