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Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned. ↗

— Susan Howe

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Knowing the true isolation of being marks the beginning of love for others. ↗

— Jack Sanger

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The things that matter don't necessarily make sense. ↗

— Russell Hoban

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You have to set somebody free for them to return ↗

— Candice Night

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Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. ↗

— Julia Heywood

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He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations. ↗

— Confucius

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

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Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die. ↗

— John Keats

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