Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Source: Little Essays (1921), p. 107
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“Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.”
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Odes, XXIX. (XXVII.), 1.
“… love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Source: City of Lost Souls
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Miss Harkins, Chapter 13, p. 139
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“Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?”
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Source: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 7, “London, 2026” (p. 65)
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Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
