"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."

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"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."

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"I'm a nudist at heart."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."

"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

"The ear is the avenue to the heart."

"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."

"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."

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"From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."

"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."

"Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion."

"Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant."