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Edith Sitwell

"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."

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A.E. Samaan

"Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence."

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A.E. Samaan

"This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain..."

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A.E. Samaan

"The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us."

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A.E. Samaan

"I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman."

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A.E. Samaan

"Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them."

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A.E. Samaan

"...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together."

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A.E. Samaan

"As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles."

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A.E. Samaan

"When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same."

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A.E. Samaan

"He ran as fast as he could, but the memories were fast too. He stumbled upon them and fell to the ground. The memories got up and stared into his eyes menacingly, they laughed harder and kept their foot on his neck. He choked and fought to breathe. He tried and failed to scream. They choked him hard until he suffered and died miserably inside."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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Edith Sitwell
"Poetry is the deification of reality."

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Edith Sitwell
"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."

Government

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Edith Sitwell
"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."

People

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Edith Sitwell
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

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Edith Sitwell
"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

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Edith Sitwell
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

Taste

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Edith Sitwell
"The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention."

Attention

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Edith Sitwell
"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten."

Life

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Edith Sitwell
"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."

Truth

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Edith Sitwell
"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."

Suffering

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