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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. - Author object (152)

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps. — What more can the heart of a man desire? - Author object (152)

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good." - Author object (152)

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! - Author object (152)

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. - Author object (152)

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Author object (152)

To get rid of an enemy one must love him. - Author object (152)

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. - Author object (152)

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. - Author object (152)

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. - Author object (152)

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. - Author object (152)

Anything is better than lies and deceit! - Author object (152)

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. - Author object (152)

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. - Author object (152)

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know. - Author object (152)

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. - Author object (152)

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... - Author object (152)

It's hard to love a woman and do anything. - Author object (152)

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible....except by getting off his back. - Author object (152)

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not. - Author object (152)