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“It would be superfluous to drive us mad, my dear Watson," said he. "A candid observer would certainly declare that we were so already before we embarked upon so wild an experiment.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

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“The process of transformation consists mostly of decay and then of this crisis when emergence from what came before must be total and abrupt.”
― Rebecca Solnit

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“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
― Mark Twain

tags: life-lessons

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“Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.”
― Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

tags: communicating, communication, listening, love

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“We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”
― Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love

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