"Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery."
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"False fancy brings real misery."
"It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity."
"If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us."
"He was never without misery, and never without hope."
"You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it."
"No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest."
"At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them."