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"It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either."
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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."

"There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will."

"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."

"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."

"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
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"Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on."

"People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other."
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