"I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens"
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"Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner."
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"Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying."
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"One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth."
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"You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you"
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"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."
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"Life should be lived to the point of tears"
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"Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it."
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"Dry your tears, have no fears."
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"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it."
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"In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer."
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"The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."
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"For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob."
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"Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?"
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"He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart."
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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"
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"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
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"Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue."
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"My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears."
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"Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another"
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