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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, re...more

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Raise from your bed of languorRaise from your bed of dismayYour friends will not come tomorrowAs they did not come todayYou must rely on yourself, the...more

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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wa...more

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Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

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But human beings must suffer, and must make suffering for themselves, and beat themselves up into spiritual frenzies, and oh death and desolation, and...more

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If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

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Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died...more

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I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.