"How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart."
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"It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny."
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"I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me."
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"I cry a lot.' 'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that."
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"If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry."
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"Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world."
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"What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?"
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"This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still."
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"Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground."
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"...it was more like bleeding than crying."
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"We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom."
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"Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance."
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"What is so real as the cry of a child?"
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"I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love."
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"For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!"
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"I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry."
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"My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away."
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"With this job, always traveling on the plane and everything, I thought it would be really difficult to quit drinking on my own because you're always in situations where it's acceptable to have drinks. So I decided right after a show that I was going to go into treatment. I Googled a bunch of places, and I found this place that I went to in Cape Town, South Africa, called Stepping Stones. I stayed there for a month. It was really difficult-lots of talking and crying."
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"My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more."
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"For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse."
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