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— Paul-Jean Toulet"A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor."
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
— Walter Benjamin
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Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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