"We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?"
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"I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly."
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"Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery."
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"Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation."
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"Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional"
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"Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time."
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"We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so."
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
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"Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth."
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"The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
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"Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns."
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"When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery."
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"Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making."
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"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence."
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"I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing."
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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."
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"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."
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"There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries."
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"You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does."
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"...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own."
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