"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

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“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”

“Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

“I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.”

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“My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.”

“The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.”

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