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"I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy."
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"Misery is a match that never goes out."
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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
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"I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy."
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"You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented."
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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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"Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life, the cause of it is moha (illusory vision)."
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"Miseries are often an option and it depends on perception."
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"Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow."
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"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."
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"Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight."
Simplicity
"There is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space."
Emotion
"Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
Emotion
"You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other."
Relationship
"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."
Writing
"Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have."
Motivation
"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."
Mystery
"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
"There's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep.I say, I know that you're there,so don't besad.then I put him back,but he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdieand we sleep together likethatwith oursecret pactand it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep, doyou?"
Emotion
"I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard."
Despair
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