Canto I, lines 22–24 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe.”
Part 3, Ch. 31
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)
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Source: Letters of Swami Vivekananda
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.