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After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
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happiness
love
torment
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Paulo Coelho |
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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tame
torment
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Jack London |
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"He uttered a curse that startled her with its foulness, and gripped her head between his hands, forcing her to stare at him. His voice was savage. "For twelve years I have been in constant torment, wanting you in my arms and believing it would never be possible. I want you for a thousand reasons other than your legs, and...no, damn it, I want you for no reason at all, other than the fact that you're you. I want to shove myself deep inside you and stay for hours...days...weeks. I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath."
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love
reunited-lovers
romance
torment
tortured-soul
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Lisa Kleypas |
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"I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness."
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evil
good
torment
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Cassandra Clare |
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She'd expected some backlash; it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo... If this was only a portion of Nico's pain... how could he bear it?
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pain
past
torment
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Rick Riordan |
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For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other's throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting--an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment.
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asher-lev
hasidic
hasidic-judaism
jew
jewish
judaism
pain
paint
painting
suffering
torment
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Chaim Potok |
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The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.
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corrosive
shame
taint
tainted
torment
worthless
worthlessness
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Donna Tartt |
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Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en meme temps une excellente raison de mourir.
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torment
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Albert Camus |
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"Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?"
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relationships
torment
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Elizabeth Hoyt |
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it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.
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depressed
depression
health
mental-illness
pain
sufferer
sympathy
torment
understanding
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William Styron |
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"We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung, And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
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honor
hope
lost
love
torment
truth
youth
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Rudyard Kipling |
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(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes (the girl looks back happily on her past or swims faster), love becomes a permanent source of the great torment we call litost.
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inspirational-quotes
litost
love
torment
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Milan Kundera |
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How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.
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matzos
persecution
survival
torment
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Chaim Potok |
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What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?
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light
the-green-knight
torment
withdrawal
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Iris Murdoch |
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"Do you believe in hell, Justina?" "Yes, Susana. And in heaven, too." "I only believe in hell, " said Susana."
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existence
sin
torment
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Juan Rulfo |
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If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.
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guilt
iris-murdoch
jealousy
remorse
repentance
the-sea-the-sea
torment
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Iris Murdoch |