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This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own ...

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We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm so...

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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothin...

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William WordsworthOde: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, be...

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It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in tha...

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Alain BadiouEthics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scrip...

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There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay ...

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Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?''A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And ther...

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From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his w...

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Frederick BuechnerA Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder ...

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I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Lone...

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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure ...

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I say, indeed: "consolation in the nonsentience of nature." For nonsentience is consoling; the world...

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Milan KunderaTestaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's ...

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You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray