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    “Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”
    —Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866)

    “Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one’s equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.”
    —Georges, French novelist, critic. L’AbbĂ© C, pt. 2, ch. 17 (1950)