"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being."
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"No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears."
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"Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide."
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"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"
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"But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof."
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"Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions"
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"She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever."
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"It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused."
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"She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair."
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"Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride"
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"Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside."
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"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
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"Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption."
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"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears."
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"Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things."
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"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
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"What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice."
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"God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future."
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"Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears."
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