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“I wish I could hold you,’ she continued, bitterly, ‘till we were both dead! I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, ‘That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I’ve loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!’ Will you say so, Heathcliff?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“There is nothing we can count on in this world, not even trees! They, too, can abandon you, die on you, leave you in the lurch one day and cross over into the great darkness and vanish forever!”
― Hermann Hesse, Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings

“And something inside me resisted renewing the cycle again, here too, this time too, giving another push to the wheel of life and cultivating one more new prey for ravenous death. I didn't want to. Let the place stand empty.”
― Hermann Hesse, Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings

“Que sur ces matelas qui se pâment d'émoi,
Les anges impuissants se damneraient pour moi!”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal