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“Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery.”
“Standing at the edge of timeAlmost falling down to the dark abyssAs I near the end of mineI reminisce the things I will missThe smiles and laughterRunning around without a careThe time when my grin...”
“Because, George thought as she sat there with her eyes closed back before Christmas in Mrs Rock's self-consciously comfortable chair in the counselling office, how can it be that there's an advert ...”
“As Ganin looked up at the skeletal roof in the ethereal sky he realized with merciless clarity that his affair with Mary was ended forever. It had lasted no more than four daysfour days which were ...”
“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”
“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart. It dropped with deadly effect upon the sorest spot of all, complete...”
“...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...”
“you know the way of the wind in the nightthe desolate alleys my soul takes”
“She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that helleven the stars didnt stand a chance.”
“Misery is a heart that can never be content with what it has and, by always craving something more, brings about its own destruction. And desolation is a heart so fearful of losing what it hoards t...”
“...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul...”
“you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes”