Gideon Paul

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“None of us can choose where we shall love...”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

tags: empathy, love, opera, passion, phantom, sympathy, understanding

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“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

tags: poetry

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“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
― St. Augustine

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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom

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