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“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“Pain, thou art not an evil”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby