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“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger