There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
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What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.