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“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
― Aeschylus

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“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
― Aeschylus

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

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