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is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
― Les Miserables
― Les Miserables
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences.”
― All the Little Live Things
― All the Little Live Things
“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
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