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"I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy."
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"Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow."
"Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to."
"Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa)."
"Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life, the cause of it is moha (illusory vision)."
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"We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that."
"The impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving this little bit of light towardusimpossibly."
"All theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck."
"I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored."
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow."
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