"When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty."
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"A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief."
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"Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh."
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"The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy)."
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"Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned."
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"If there were no Love, there'd be no grief"
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"Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates."
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"There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros."
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"We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering."
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"For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life."
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"I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination."
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"Ah, grief makes us precise!"
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"all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time."
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"Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart"
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"Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding."
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"The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot."
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"Every love story is a potential grief story."
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"All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs."
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"And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes."
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"Nothing remained but loneliness and grief."
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