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"Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry."
"Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant."
"There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave."
"You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears."
"As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is."
"I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited."
"True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes."
"I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel."
"I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come."
"The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet."
"Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept."
"And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles."
"But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse"
"If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears."
"Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers."
"The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase."
"Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me."
"Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me."
"The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs."
