"For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with."
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"What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind."
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"The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action."
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"Suffering gives us no special rights."
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"For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering"
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"he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while."
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"Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer."
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"We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt to profit by playing various games in the securities markets."
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"Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy."
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"All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low."
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"Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating."
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"He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger."
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"The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering."
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"When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'."
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"The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all."
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"There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay."
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"Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me."
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"Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive."
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"We must learn to suffer more."
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"There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it."
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