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Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing

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quietness and other screams
Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair and yet be tortured by hope.

*Mary Shelley

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Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is is holy and pure and spiritual: all of it is myself.

-James Joyce

CHORUS: Brave girl . KASSANDRA: People never say that to a lucky person, do they?

-Agamemnon, Aeschelus

The barren sadness of the landscape had a strange fascination to me. I like to battle the cold winds. Do you understand what I mean? Sometimes cheerless places have more appeal to the heart than a scene of all pretty sunshine and flowers.
  • Sylvia Plath

Kelly McKaig

Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk - that liminal moment in between - murmurs suggestions
  • Pamela Petro
Yes, there is a place where someone loves you both, before and after they learn what you are
  • Neil Hilborn
We've died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care
  • Charles Bukowski
I kept being alive when I should have been burning. I was Joan, I was Lazarus.
  • Louise Gluck
When I care I don't leave And once I leave, I don't care

Matthew

I sunk beneath the amorous sadness of night
  • Arthur Rimbaud

Navin Kumar

There's peace at the end of it all. A difficult and bitter peace, sometimes, but peace.
  • Albert Camus

Görtz

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone
  • Lord Byron

Benjamin Hardman, Burst of light

But the heart sometimes blindly seeks suffering
  • Albert Camus

Aimery J. Joëssel

The truth is, though, that you don't need to die to know what it's like to be a ghost.
  • Adam Jonhson
All they were - all they had ever been - was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun
  • Micah Nemerever

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