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Miserable

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome."

Spirit Miserable Hateful
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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become."

Misery Miserable Restless
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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
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"I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be."

Used Miserable Diaries
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there."

Self Party Miserable
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Julian Young Philosopher
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"In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still."

Moments Consciousness Miserable
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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?"

World Ridiculous Miserable
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