"Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop."
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"En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition."
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"I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it."
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"I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity."
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"The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy."
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"In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us."
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"salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb."
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"I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable."
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"The miserable are sacred."
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"Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times."
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"I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't."
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"If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable."
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"Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable."
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"As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery."
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"Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?"
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"None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it."
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"One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable."
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"Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too."
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"The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]"
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"it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else"
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