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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“the idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“When we our betters see bearing our woes, we scarcely think our miseries our foes.” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Who is't can read a woman?” William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
“Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.” Edith Wharton, House of Mirth
“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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