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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Theodor W. Adorno

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Variant translation: But the highest passion in a human being is faith

Søren Kierkegaard

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.