“Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”
Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers
Source: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 63: The Drop of Water.
“He who weeps does not die; weeping is a sign of life; weep, and your life is worth something again.”
— Halldór Laxness, book The Atom Station
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
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