"By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded."
"Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'."
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Source: Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK
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