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"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."
"I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots"
"Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."
"Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world."
"Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands."
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
""Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"I can't wait for the day I learn to live in the now!"
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
"To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward."
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
"I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight."
"We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad."
"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."
"For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all."
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
