Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Erich Maria Remarque

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