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“When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When she first crossed the dry and dusty world which was his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower...”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the—”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“[I]t is most trying to feel enormously hungry and unspeakably sinful at one and the same time.”
― Edith Nesbit, Five Children and It