"Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness."
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"How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!"
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""You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin."
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"We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us."
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"The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain."
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"As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief."
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"Your kiss is bitter with cocaine."
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"O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other."
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"Negative feedback can make us bitter or better."
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"There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet."
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"Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience."
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"Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone."
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"I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross."
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"Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones."
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"I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one."
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"Through love all that is bitter will be sweet."
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"I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit."
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"How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it."
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"The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment."
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"If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him."
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