"Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell."
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"Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell."
"Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell"
"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."
"The cunning livery of hell."
"How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works."
"Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone."
"Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made."
"The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell"
"The doors of hell are locked from the inside!"
"Hell is just resistance to life."
"You heard of hell, well I was sent from it."
"To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me."
"I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions."
"Without literature, life is hell."
"Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that"
"The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor."
"Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love."
"The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires."
"Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly."