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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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence."
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Explore more quotes by David Mitchell

"Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous."
Society

"There're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice."
Mind

"Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Class Dialectics. It didn't sound like very powerful magic to me."
Politics

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."
Power

"She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman."
Literature

"This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think."
Faith

"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."
Justice

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."
Art

"Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows."
Reality

"The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning."
Creativity
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