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[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above t...

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Tacitus laughed at the Germanic tribes who tried to stop a torrent with their shields, but it is no ...

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The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cit...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul...

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Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will ho...

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