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"Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel."
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"Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams 'If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!' And somehow we've conveniently forgotten that once upon a time He allowed us to tell Him to go away, and once upon that time we allowed ourselves to take Him up on that offer."
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"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
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"Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real."
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"Discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature's hands. That's why there is restlessness. That is why these are the pains of dependency [association]. There are such times man has to face that it becomes difficult for him to pass even one hour."
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"Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that."
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"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."
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"She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . ."
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"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."
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"As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator."
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"Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel."
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"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
Success
"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."
Spirit
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
Thought
"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."
Truth
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
Life
"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
End
"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
Truth
"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."
Wisdom
"The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn."
Economy
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
Thought
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