"My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out."
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"Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?"
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"When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through."
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"If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little."
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"Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them."
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"Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony."
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"Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other."
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"She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory."
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"There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure."
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"I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside."
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"When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have."
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"I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !"
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"I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly."
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"No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears."
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"From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it."
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"Love provided me with a tongue and tears."
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"Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried."
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"Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making."
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"By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up."
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"Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it."
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