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> [Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-cunningham/maybe-it-s-not-in-the-end-the-virtues-of-others-that-so-wrenches-our/)

[Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-cunningham/)

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> [“All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/all-thy-passions-in-the-end-became-virtues-and-all-thy-devils-angels/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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