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"...the sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart...converted it into a tomb..."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

tags: heart, sadness, sorrow, tomb

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"The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life."
— Sarah Ash

tags: age, death, grave, life, loss, time, tomb

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"My heart foreseeing your condemnation, I made my way to your tomb by stealth, far from every human gaze, for in your arms I wished to die..."
— Giuseppi Verdi

tags: aida, death, egypt, fatal, la, love, opera, phantom, pietra, sad, tomb

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