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Those of us who were privileged to be his friends benefited from his example, not to mention his help and encouragement, with which he was always generous.
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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