"If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world."
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"None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear."
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"This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer."
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"I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak."
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"Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears."
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"We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be."
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"Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues."
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"And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love."
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"I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me."
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"There is a sacredness in tears"
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"When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
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"All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone."
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"The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough."
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"My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard."
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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."
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"Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears"
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"Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears."
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"And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled."
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"sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish."
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"You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it."
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