"Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most."
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"There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation."
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"But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?"
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"She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry."
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"Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people."
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"Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation."
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"If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven."
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"I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine."
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"By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything"
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"On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable."
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"A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy."
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"I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy."
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"When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy."
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"Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen."
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"Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life."
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"Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!"
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"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."
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"A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed."
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"Now he's miserable and depressed."
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"No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life."
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