"The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering."
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"We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]"
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"The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]"
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"There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-"
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"As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt."
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"I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer."
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"Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable."
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"To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state."
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"There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer."
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"Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable."
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"How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?"
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"We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow."
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"When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer."
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"The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl."
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"Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]"
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"Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur."
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"I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top."
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"Attachment is the source of all suffering."
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"Suffering is an illusion."
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"A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother."
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