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“...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.”
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until you do understand.”
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“...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...”
― A Familiar Rain
― A Familiar Rain
“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
― Snow
― Snow
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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