“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”
― The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
― The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
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