“Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Av'rice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On fire.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“What I know for sure is that every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and step out and dance—to live free of regret and filled with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“No one who knew him ever believed him capable of a dishonorable act, and nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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