Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Elie Wiesel
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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Mother Teresa
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of...
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Fredrik Backman
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
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Brian Tracy
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
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Antonio Porchia
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I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?
What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?
Was there anyone in this world who could taste something delicious-economic freedom and political reform-a taste that was salty and fattening and sweet and promising, and only be satisfied with one mouthful? Who would wait patiently for nearly a billion people to also have a...
How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before
