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It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emer...

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The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't kno...

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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...

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It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...

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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

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John Stuart MillAn examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy

(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to lo...

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That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitatio...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happi...

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We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder run...

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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...

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it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers fr...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

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To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to liv...

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Anne RicePrince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in th...

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How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in mat...

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For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. ...

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