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“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Diary” - 2003

“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“Things are sweeter when they're lost.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” - 1922

“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the...” A. W. Tozer, “The Pursuit of God” - 1948

“Love is sweet . . . but it cannot change a man’s nature.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother?” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Compensation” - 1841

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