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"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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"Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted."
Kindness

"Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor."
Psychology

"Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it."
Economics

"Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world."
Creativity

"A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love-the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted."
Love

"Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things."
Burden

"I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand."
Judgment

"Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him."
Courage

"Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?"
Simplicity

"It is not something we often find out, but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary."
Talent
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"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."
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"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
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Personal Development

"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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Personal Development

"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."
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Personal Development

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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Personal Development

"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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Personal Development

"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."
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Personal Development

"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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Personal Development

"Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism."
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"To shut your eyes is to travel."
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Personal Development
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