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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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