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“She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.”

Book:The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

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“A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet through his own head is called a suicide; but for those who give freedom to their pitiful, soul-debasing passions in the holy days of spring and youth there is no name in man's vocabulary. After the bullet follows the peace of the grave: ruined youth is followed by years of grief and painful recollections. He who has profaned his spring will understand the present condition of my soul. I am not yet old, or grey, but I no longer live. Psychiaters tell us that a solider, who was wounded at Waterloo, went mad, and afterwards assured everybody - and believed it himself - that he had died at Waterloo, and that what was now considered to be him was only his shadow, a reflection of the past. I am now experiencing something resembling this semi-death..”

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Book:The Shooting Party

Source: The Shooting Party

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

Sadness Sorrow

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”

Grief Sadness

Author:Pericles

“Sono Hari Seldon, ex primo ministro dell'imperatore Cleon I, professore emerito di Psicostoria all'Università di Streeling su Trantor, direttore del progetto di Ricerca psicostorica, direttore esecutivo dell'Enciclopedia galattica, creatore di Fondazione. Lo so, tutto questo sembra molto pomposo. Ho fatto molte cose nei miei ottantuno anni, e sono stanco.”

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Book:The Foundation Trilogy

Source: The Foundation Trilogy

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