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“That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

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“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
― Aeschylus

tags: brutal-comforting

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“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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“I know how men in exile feed on dreams”
― Aeschylus

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“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: ancient-greek-tragedy, inspirational

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