"The way sadness works is one of the……" — Daniel Handler
"The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire."
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495 Quotes by Daniel Handler
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes.…
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He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other…
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