"Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain."

-- John Dryden

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“One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.”

Source : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, November 13, 1792.
“If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me.”
“It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything. Your laugh, your wit, your emotions and the way they change. Your courage, your sweetness, your near obsessive delight in cookies. Second, you are indeed a prize. You've made me want what no one else ever had. A communion of bodies." -Zacharel to Annabelle”
“It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (1880). “He that will not when he may”
“Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
“I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.”
“You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”
“The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.”

Source : Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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