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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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"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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"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
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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 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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"Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?"
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"One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary."
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"He panted over me, winded by his own absurd lecture. The stench of his alcoholic breath stung my nose. Again I didn't answer. I hoped he'd tire out and end his speech and hobble back to the living room without touching me. Such hopes were unlikely, as was the case this time. "Answer me, you good-for-nuthin' wench! The pain bit instantly as his hand connected with my cheek. I shook my head in answer to his crazy questions, feeling a rise of warm tears."
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"Suffering is never wasted. Most often those who suffer the most will learn the most."
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"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
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"This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain..."
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Power
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
Knowledge
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering
"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."
People
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
People
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
Friendship
"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
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"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."
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"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
History
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
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