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"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."
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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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"It was well said-by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think-that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable."
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"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."
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"How could I feel something when... I always get screw up... good people get killed and bad people just make suicides."
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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
Media
"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."
Parenting
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
Work
"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue."
Behavior
"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."
Psychology
"Some wo/men are so possessive - you end up missing missing them."
Relationship
"Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns."
Relationship
"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."
Literature
"Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes."
Perception
"The phrase 'You complete me' is nonsensical. A couple is a 'we' - not a complete 'me.'"
Relationship
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