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“THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

“For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

“Когда в человеке нет того, что выше и сильнее всех внешних влияний, то, право, достаточно для него хорошего насморка, чтобы потерять равновесие и начать видеть в каждой птице сову, в каждом звуке слышать собачий вой.”
― А.П. Чехов, Избранные произведения

“Так же вот бывают люди, которые всегда говорят одни только умные и хорошие слова, но чувствуешь, что они тупые люди.”
― А.П. Чехов, Избранные произведения

“When your soulmate cries your heart weeps.”
― Ken Poirot

“The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby