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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only ...

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This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Children of Húrin

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears...

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Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment...

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys...

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It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out ...

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We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet ...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than y...

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