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The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to read more
The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage read more
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
