An army is a strange composite masterpiece, which strength results from an enormous sum total of utter weaknesses. Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity in spite of humanity. Les Misérables
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. The Prophet
Variant translation: Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Book IV
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