Quote by Milan Kundera
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain w

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Mankinds true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. – Milan Kundera

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

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To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily. – Juliette Gordon Low

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Only in your imagination can you revise. – Fay Wray

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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter

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