"Much outcry, little outcome."
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"Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!"
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"Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up."
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"D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it."
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"I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary."
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"The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire it... The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it, and it will not only trample upon the Holy, but also will tear apart those who force it on them."
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"I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat."
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"You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good."
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"Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely."
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"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!"
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"The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away."
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"Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate."
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"One friend said, "Donnie Darko movie was weird!" And I thought, "Hmm. I don't think we're as good of friends as I thought." It's not like I disliked him for it; it just meant we weren't on the same page I thought we were. Because I can't imagine watching that film and not being moved to tears."
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"All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace."
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"Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together."
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"Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart."
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"I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar."
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"I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands."
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"What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!"
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"Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself"."
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