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"I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy."
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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 is a match that never goes out."
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"Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa)."
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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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"Miseries are often an option and it depends on perception."
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"Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!"
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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
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"People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'."
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"Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life."
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"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."
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"There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were."
Behavior
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."
Soul
"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."
Solitude
"Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
Emotion
"Now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don't want anything personal, let's just do it, I don't want to get involved, got it? she kicked off her high-heeled shoes, sure, he said, standing there, let's just pretend that we've already done it, there's nothing less involved than that, is there? what the hell do you mean? she asked. I mean, he said, I'd rather drink anyhow. and he poured himself one. it was a lousy night in Vegas and he walked to the window and looked out at the dumb lights. you a fag? she asked, you a god damned fag? no, he said. you don't have to get shitty."
Relationship
"When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity."
Wisdom
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
Genius
"And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built."
Society
"I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions."
Society
"Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job, it takes a wise man to make it without working."
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