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“It was wrong to do this," said the angel.
"You should live like a flower,
Holding malice like a puppy,
Waging war like a lambkin."

"Not so," quoth the man
Who had no fear of spirits;
"It is only wrong for angels
Who can live like the flowers,
Holding malice like the puppies,
Waging war like the lambkins.”
― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

“It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“But how to soothe souls inflamed by the intense torment imposed first by childhood experiences almost too sordid to believe and then, with mechanical repetition, by the sufferers themselves? And how to offer them comfort when their suffering is made worse every day by social ostracism—by what the scholar and writer Elliot Leyton has described as “the bland, racist, sexist, and ‘classist’ prejudices buried in Canadian society: an institutionalized contempt for the poor, for sex-trade workers, for drug addicts and alcoholics, for aboriginal people.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“Only the insomniac looks on with open eyes, like a cadaver who forgot to die.”
― Gyula Krúdy