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1 " We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. " I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us. "
2 " all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel. "
― Carlos Fuentes , Terra Nostra
3 " In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue "
― Munia Khan
4 " This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore. "
― , The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A Novel of Snow and Courage
5 " O Sacred Heart of Mary!" she murmured by his side, and he felt how that name was food and raiment, friend and mother to her. He received the miracle in her heart into his own, saw through her eyes, knew that his poverty was as bleak as hers. When the Kingdom of Heaven had first come into the world, into a cruel world of torture and slaves and masters, He who brought it had said, " And whosoever is least among you, the same shall be first in the Kingdom of Heaven. "
6 " Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude. "