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“All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.”
― CLAMP, ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- 23

“It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.”
― CLAMP, ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- 25

“Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.”
― CLAMP, ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- 25

“Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.”
― CLAMP, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 20

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

“What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.”
― Laurent Schwartz