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"Sadness is also a kind of defence."
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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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"Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives."
Fear
"If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear."
People
"There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry."
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"Sadness is also a kind of defence."
Sadness
"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."
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"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
Man
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