"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
-Ivan Turgenev
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"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.“
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"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness."
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"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"
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"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights."
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"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
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"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
-Dante Alighieri
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
-P. J. O'Rourke
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
-Corrie Ten Boom
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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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