"Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now."
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"So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still."
"O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art."
"Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel."
"Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn."
"I saw sorrow turning into clarity."
"Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse."
"I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting."
"But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory."
"Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back."
"I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?"
"We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music."
"My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!"