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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Marc Bekoff
    “Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter.”
    ― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
    tags: animal-rights, animals, compassion, pain, speciesism, suffer
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time. ”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: life, mourning
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    Lemony Snicket
    “If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: bereavement, mourning
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    Jodi Picoult
    “In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: inadequacy-of-words, mourning
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    Euripides
    “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy
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    Nina Guilbeau
    “Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to do right now. Right now I can’t sleep. It’s right now that I can’t eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he’s not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now.”
    ― Nina Guilbeau, Too Many Sisters
    tags: emotional-pain, loneliness, loss, loss-quotes, lost-love, mourning, sadness-love, sadness-missing-cry
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    Roland Barthes
    “Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
    ― Roland Barthes
    tags: death, grief, loss, mourning, suffering
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    Carrie Jones
    “Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”
    ― Carrie Jones, Captivate
    tags: bereavement, loss, mourning
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  • #10
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
    ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
    tags: inspirational
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    Victor Hugo
    “Those who do not weep, do not see.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: crying, inspirational, sorrow
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    Victor Hugo
    “If I speak, I am condemned.
    If I stay silent, I am damned!”
    ― victor hugos, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: love
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    Victor Hugo
    “You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: honesty
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    Victor Hugo
    “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: les-miserables-books
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    Victor Hugo
    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: humanity, misery, poverty
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    Victor Hugo
    “Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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    Victor Hugo
    “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
    ― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
    tags: being-loved, happiness, happiness-life, love
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  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Victor Hugo
    “I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: grantaire, les-mis, les-miserables
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    Victor Hugo
    “Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: forethought, impossible, plan, vision
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    Victor Hugo
    “The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: reality
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  • #28
    Victor Hugo
    “There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.”
    ― Víctor Hugo, Les Misérables
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  • #29
    Victor Hugo
    “What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: heroic, love, sun
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    Victor Hugo
    “I think, therefore I doubt.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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