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  2. One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Horowitz used the rhyme as the organising scheme for the story-within-a-story in his 2016 novel Magpie Murders and in the subsequent television adaptation of the same name. [17] The nursery rhyme's name was used for a book written by Mary Downing Hahn, One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story. The book additionally contains references to the ...

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    In the midst of life, we are in death; Into every life a little rain must fall; It ain't over till/until it's over; It ain't over till the fat lady sings; It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so; It goes without saying; It is a small world; It is all grist to the mill

  4. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole - Wikipedia

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    A New York Times critic noted that, since Cain wrote she "didn’t fact-check the stories people told me about themselves, but included only those I believed to be true", it was difficult to know how seriously to take this book as a document of scholarship or reportage. [1] Though finding the book's premise and most of its anecdotes and ...

  5. Broken heart - Wikipedia

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    The sentiment is expressed in a collection of Sumerian proverbs: [33] May Inana pour oil on my heart that aches. Biblical references to the pain of a broken heart date back to 1015 BC. [34] Insults have broken my heart and left me weak, I looked for sympathy but there was none; I found no one to comfort me —

  6. Lacrimae rerum - Wikipedia

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    Lacrimae rerum (Latin: [ˈlakrɪmae̯ ˈreːrũː] [1]) is the Latin phrase for "tears of things." It derives from Book I, line 462 of the Aeneid (c. 29–19 BC), by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC).

  7. Bonjour Tristesse - Wikipedia

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    German-American filmmaker Otto Preminger produced and directed a film adaptation of the book through his film production company Wheel Productions. Bonjour Tristesse was released in 1958 and stars Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr and David Niven. [5] Canadian dark ambient band Soufferance based and themed their 2011 concept extended play on the book.

  8. Weltschmerz - Wikipedia

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    Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet. Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, [1] [2] resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute ...

  9. Bani Adam - Wikipedia

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    Shrine of John the Baptist in the Umayyad Mosque.. The poem comes in the Gulistan at the end of story ten of the first chapter "On the Conduct of Kings". In this story Saʿdi claims to have been praying at the tomb of John the Baptist in the Great Mosque in Damascus, when he gave advice to an unnamed king who requested Saʿdi to add his prayers to his own as he was afraid of a powerful enemy.