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Letter "C" » consolation
«Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.»
«It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.»
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Composer)
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consolation, drawn, look on, near in, suffered
«Love is not consolation. It is light.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Love
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consolation, light
«In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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agonies, by default, consolation, default, inexhaustible, The Agony and
«Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!»
«Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal»
«My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter is; and were it, I'd not do so. This manner of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life; it alleviates all my sufferings in prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world outside, it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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alleviated, alleviates, alter, composes, consolation, dearer, find fault, for dear life, hold dear, reflections, sole, stemmed, stems, sufferings, The Source, The Way I Am, unhappiness
«In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.»
«I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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added, consolation, public service, retires, retiring
«I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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administration, consolation, reflect, shed, The Sword
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