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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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“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”
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“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
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“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”
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“By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also”
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“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”
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“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”
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“I find myself fascinating.”
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“How goodness heightens beauty!”
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“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
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