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"I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy."
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"Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter."
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"Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life, the cause of it is moha (illusory vision)."
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"Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life."
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"Misery is a match that never goes out."
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"Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa)."
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"Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!"
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"Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to."
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"I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment."
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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
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"Writers speak stench."
Writing
"It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves."
Irony
"Judgement does not come suddenly, the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement."
Judgment
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
Beginning
"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."
Philosophical
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
Expression
"German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting."
Language
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth
"Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers."
Awareness
"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."
Existence
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