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C.G. Jung
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde

Kahlil Gibran
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Kahlil Gibran

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