"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
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"Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right."
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"Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent."
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"Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned."
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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
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"You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength."
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."
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"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."
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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
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"You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence."
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"The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!"
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"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?"
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"She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her."
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"Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers."
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"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
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"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."
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"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
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"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
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"my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living."
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