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“We all so willingly record our gains, until the hour that leads us into loss. Then every single thought is tears and sadness.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“And I told you to bring nine toys," she said. "You brought eight. Next time try to pay more attention." And the disappointment in her voice made him cry even harder, so hard that he couldn't talk, and thus he couldn't tell her that he put eight toys in the wagon because the ninth toy was the wagon itself.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“To me she said: "There is no sorrow greater than, in times of misery, to hold at heart the memory of happiness.”
― Dante Alighieri, Circles of Hell