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George Eliot
“but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Walt Whitman
“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
They scorn the best I can do to relate them.”
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Leo Tolstoy
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.'
'Love life more than the meaning of it?'
'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

George Eliot
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

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