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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens““What a fine weather today!"”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.”
The Name of The Rose • Umberto Eco“There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. ”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius“[Why is suicide held not to be right?] There is a doctrine uttered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door to his prison and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not understand. Yet I too, believe that the gods are our guardians, and that we are a possession of theirs. ...And if one of your possessions, an ox or an ass, for example took the liberty of putting himself out of the way when you had given no intimation of your wish that he should die, would you not be angry with him, and would you not punish him if you could? ...Then there may be reason in saying that a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning me.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato