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"With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse."
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
"Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself."
"It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness."
"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."
"There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends."
"With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same."
"When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other."
"The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity."
"Patience is sorrow's salve."
"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair."
"Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life."
"And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company."
"Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible."
"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."
"Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears."
"Social sorrow loses half its pain."
"No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity."
"My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow."
"Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together."
