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“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.”
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“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”
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“Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.”
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“A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.”
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“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
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“A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.”
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“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
Peace Pilgrim quotes (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace Prophet, 1908-1981)
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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.”
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“If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.”
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“Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.”
Simone Weil quotes (French social Philosopher, Mystic and Activist in the French Resistance during World War II. 1909-1943)
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“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
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