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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.


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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)



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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.



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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.



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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.



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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.



When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.



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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.



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... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.





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