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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Comfort

"A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Comfort

"Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?"

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"Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need."

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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
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"For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself."

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Henry Ford Industrialist
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"The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all."

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