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Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.
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Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.
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Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?
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No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.
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Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.
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It is the pang of parting, the unloosing our grasp, the breaking asunder some strong tie, the leaving some cherished purpose unfulfilled, that creates the repugnance to go
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The calculated killing of a human being by the State involves, by its very nature, a denial of the executed person's humanity.