Tears
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"I know not how to draw any distinction between tears and music." ("Ich weiß keinen Unterschied zwischen Tränen und Musik zu machen") --Ecce Homo (1908) by Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Tears are a bodily fluid produced by the body's process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying.
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See also
- Crying
- Melodrama
- Suffering
- Depression (mood)
- Grief
- Heraclitus, the wheeping philosopher
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In titles
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- The Tears of Eros (1961), art history book by Georges Bataille
- The Tears of the White Man by Pascal Bruckner
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