“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
― King Lear
― King Lear
“Haste denies all acts their dignity.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
“For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.”
― Inferno
― Inferno
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