"Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?"

-- Osamu Dazai

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“Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.”

Source : Lindsey Kelk (2015). “Lindsey Kelk 6-Book ‘I Heart...’ Collection”, p.71, HarperCollins UK
“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
“We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.”
“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.”
“Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love”
“I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.”
“Today is the most important day of our lives.”

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