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“Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.”
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“Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.”
Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.252, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”
Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin
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“If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go”
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“It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.139, Macmillan
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“You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.”
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“In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.”
Source : Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific
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“Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.”
Source : "Gorilla artist Anthony Browne becomes children's laureate" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2009. 
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“Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.”
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“I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.”
