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Bohumil Hrabal
“The heavens are not humane, but I’d forgotten compassion and love.”
Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

Clarice Lispector
“Being happy is for what?”
Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

Dorothee Sölle
“God has no other hands than ours.”
Dorothee Sölle, Suffering

Rainer Maria Rilke
“I would like to step out of my heart
And go walking beneath the enormous sky.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Simone Weil
“Thus it happens that those who have force on loan from fate count on it too much and are destroyed.”
Simone Weil, War and the Iliad

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