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In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

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“Like a flash of lightning Arthur Schopenhauer appeared to me and said, "The highest law is love, the love that is compassion,”
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“You're not one of us." "I don't think I'm one of them, either," said Brutha. "I'm one of mine.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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