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The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and,...more

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I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seem...more

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When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given tim...more

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Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mi...more