The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
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There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
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When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
