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For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.
Beware of Pity
What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some point, requiting it. There was no credit to be earned for simply being good.
Freedom
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.
Mrs. Dalloway
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
The Passion According to G.H.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
A. is very puffed up, he thinks he is far advanced in goodness since, obviously as an object that is ever seductive, he feels himself exposed to ever more temptations from directions hitherto unknown to him.
The Zurau Aphorisms (9/10)
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
Siddhartha
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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