“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
― A Bend in the River
― A Bend in the River
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
― The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
― The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.”
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