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“Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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“See how time makes all grief decay.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.218
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“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?”
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“A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.”
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“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
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“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”
Source : "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land". Book by Aime Cesaire, 1939.
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“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”
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“Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.”
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“Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.”
