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"Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real."
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"As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator."
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"Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy."
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"Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?"
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"The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith."
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"More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat..."
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"We must love one another or die."
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"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."
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"It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death."
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"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
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"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."
Patience
"God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent."
Religion
"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."
Love
"God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge."
Religion
"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it."
Love
"I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting."
Happiness
"To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth - that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man."
Ambition
"Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers."
Religion
"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."
Religion
"There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts."
Art
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