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"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
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"Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart."
"And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from the world because to each moment clung a whole mass of mortal images. For five years the earth has not seen a single morning without death agonies, a single evening without prisons, a noon without slaughter."
"The body was weak, it can't move it can't do anything. It was like a junkie or a robot which is off, the body was in terrible condition. This wasn't a robot, this was a human a real human which suicided a human which his body was swollen!"
"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
"The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us."
"The suffering that is there in this world is such that it will fall off (go away), but people give support to it."
"The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith."
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"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
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