"Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up."
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"There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy."
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"Genius is sorrow's child."
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"Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs."
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"…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow."
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"Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone."
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"Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness."
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"That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched."
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"No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery."
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"Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end."
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"We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal."
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"I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways."
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"I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?"
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"Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?"
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"Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!"
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"When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete."
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"He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail."
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"In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth."
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"There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction."
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"Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away."
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