Quote by Amelia Barr
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. – Amelia Barr

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But the lovers power is the poets power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. – Amelia Barr

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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. – Amelia Barr

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. – Eugene Ionesco

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno

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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. – Edna Ferber

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Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. – Bob Dylan

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