Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

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About Dodie Smith

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The...

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All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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It is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death.

—Lewis H. Lapham

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Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

—Marcus Antonius

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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

—Daniel Berrigan

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What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the vanguard of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

—John B. Gough

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Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

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