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“There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.”
Dead Souls • Nikolai Gogol“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy““Milena among the saviors! Milena who is constantly discovering in herself that the only way to save another person is by being there and nothing else. Moreover, she has already saved me once with her presence and now, after the fact, is trying to do so with other, infinitely smaller means. Naturally, saving someone from drowning is a great deed, but what good is it if the savior then sends the saved a gift-certificate for a swimming course?” (31 July 1920)”
Letters To Milena • Franz Kafka“If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.”
Discourses • Epictetus“No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig