Gilbert Parker
"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."
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"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."
"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."