- "i know the stars by heart, the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have — our great blazing kings of the sky."
- "i'll take your loving hand in mine and then... the rest is silence."
- "— the young are lost forever —"
- "and now it goes as it goes and where it ends is fate."
- "— beating back this raw, relentless anguish gnawing at the heart."
- "— that we must suffer, suffer into truth."
- "— that we suffer and we suffer and we learn."
- "and we will know the future when it comes. greet it too early, weep too soon. it all comes clear in the light of day."
- "there were times i thought i'd faint with longing."
- "who but a god can go through life unmarked?"
- "never too old to learn; it keeps me young."
- "— society, the flattering mirror of the proud."
- "i am older, and the fear dies away... i am human."
- "i wavered between the living and the dead."
- "— we court two griefs in one."
- "i'd watch till late at night, my eyes still burn, i sobbed by the torch i lit for you alone."
- "o the ecstasy, to flee the yoke of fate!"
- "conquer with compassion."
- "but a man's life-blood is dark and mortal. once it wets the earth what song can sing it back?"
- "i must be brave. it is my turn to die."
- "once in the halls she walked and she was war, angel of war, angel of agony, lighting men to death."
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