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"A silent tear slips down my cheek. It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness." — 7 hours, 46 min ago
"A silent tear slips down my cheek. It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness." — 7 hours, 46 min ago
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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