"Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!"
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"At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another."
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"The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want."
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"I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me."
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"The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself."
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"Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies."
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"The childless escape much misery."
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"I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things."
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"Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed."
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"Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery."
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"I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery."
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"All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch."
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"We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness."
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"Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up."
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"All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone."
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"I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me."
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"To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause."
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"If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom."
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"Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity."
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"The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible."
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