"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
- P.B. Shelley

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"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
- Charles Dickens

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"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."
- Nikolai Gogol

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"When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best."
- Sholom Aleichem

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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
- Vincent Van Gogh

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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
- Vincent Van Gogh

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"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
- Vincent Van Gogh

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"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
- Leo Tolstoy

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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
- Orson Welles

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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
- C S Lewis

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