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“all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.” Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
“Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented?” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“If she desired to go, she might: the nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.” William Shakespeare, Othello

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