"Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching."
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"Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up."
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"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
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"We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us."
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"I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard."
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"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."
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"The ocean doesn't want me today, But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away But the ocean doesn't want me today"
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"I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death."
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"Is That All There Is?"
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"The sadness will last forever."
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"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
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"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless."
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"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts."
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
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"If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain."
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"If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well."
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
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"'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head."
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"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
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"I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you."
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