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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."
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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
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"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
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"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."
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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
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"A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away."
Present

"The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children."
People

"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
Emotional

"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
Sympathy

"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness."
Nature

"There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by."
Life

"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"
Comfort

"One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity."
Enthusiasm

"I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own."
Opinion

"Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em."
Woman
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