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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."

"Just because an impressive storm doesn't touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!"

"Are you comfortable? That's good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!"
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."

"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them."

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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