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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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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. – Milan Kundera

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Freedom
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. – Milan Kundera

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Fear
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. – Milan Kundera

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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Imagination

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. – Bryant H. McGill

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Imagination

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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Imagination

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something. – Mo Rocca

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortunes bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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Im not angry, Im not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that Im more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. – Calvin Harris

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My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my Top Ten friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown. – Julie Burchill

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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have. – Naomi Watts

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