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“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is no deficit in human resources, the deficit is in human will”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Without failure, no ethics”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“We see God and the devil blaming each other, and cherish the unspeakable belief that both of them are drunk.”
― Frank Wedekind, Spring's Awakening

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
― Thomas Merton

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956