"Joy came always after pain."

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Source : Guillaume Apollinaire, Donald Revell (1995). “Alcools: Poems”, p.13, Wesleyan University Press

Guillaume Apollinaire

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes

“If you develop rules, never have more than ten.”
“See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.”
“I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me.”
“Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.”
“Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.”
“I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”
“The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”
“You can love someone without wanting to be with them. Just like you can want to be with someone before you love them.”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2015). “Beautiful Redemption: A Novel”, p.96, Jamie McGuire

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