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I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
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Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
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“Everything was so much sharper without the Link fogging me--sights, sounds, smells. It was exhilarating and shocking and terrifying. I knew my… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have… — William Morris Copy Share Image
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