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“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.” Stephen King, The Stand
“What we share, Jon and I, may be a lot like a traffic accident, but we do share it. We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes in first.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'” C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“In short, my aunt stipulated, at one and the same time, that whoever came to see her must approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of an ultimate recovery.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other—that man, that woman, that child is my brother, my sister.” Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love, There Is God
“She had opinions about everything, and she wasn’t afraid to share them.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“It is not sufficient to use the same words in order to understand one another: we must also employ the same words for the same kind of internal experiences, we must in the end have experiences IN COMMON.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'” Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
“I have given you rather more of my time than I had intended. The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
“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
“Confirmed then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe: so dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.” William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
“Who am I to tell my private nightmares to if I can't tell them to you?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“For even as it is better to enlighten than merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the fruits of one's contemplation than merely to contemplate.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour in every country of the world.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.” Albert Camus, The Fall

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