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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Boris Pasternak
Strong, Compassion, Feelings
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1965). “The Poems of Dr. Zhivago”, p.134, Manchester University Press
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.