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"It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's."
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"Suffering is a misunderstanding."
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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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"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer-committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
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"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
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"We suffer in silence."
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"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise."
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"...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together."
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"Suffering often comes from the choices you make. Choose carefully."
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"When i open eyes in the morning, it's just like GOD Sprinkle salt on my wounds."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
Media
"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
Ambition
"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
Art
"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
Success
"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
Literature
"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up."
Work
"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."
Family
"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons."
Love
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
Man
"Sanity is a cozy lie."
Lie
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