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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."
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"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."

"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability."

"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."

"When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes."

"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."

"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."

"We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden."

"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."
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"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
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