"The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
“Grace binds you with far stronger cords than the cords of duty or obligation can bind you. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver. Like produces like. Grace makes you gracious, the Giver makes you give.”
“Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.”
“Every man born of woman has problems.”

Source : Elizabeth Kata (1965). “A Patch Of Blue”
“I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.”
“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.162, Faber & Faber
“We share half our genes with the banana.”
“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”

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