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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Unconditionally love people for what they are not what they should be."

"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."
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"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."


"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."


"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."


"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."


"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."


"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."


"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
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