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“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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― Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
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― Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― The Merchant of Venice
― The Merchant of Venice
“While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.”
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“When you see a man falling off a ladder above you, Edith believed, you don't envision your arms breaking. You just hold them out.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
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