"I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end."
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"Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product."
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"Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'"
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"No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this."
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"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
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"This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone."
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"There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness."
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"Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."
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"In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles."
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"All human happiness and misery take the form of action."
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"If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love."
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"Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath."
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"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
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"Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low."
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"Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone."
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"A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery"
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"I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them."
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"Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness."
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"There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life."
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"Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge."
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