#suffering

Best for a person is to live his life being as cheerful and as little distressed as possible. This will occur if he does

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Just as no bodily pleasure at all can gladden the mind of one whose body is engulfed in flames, so too those full of

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Trees do not bear grudges nor is any effort required to please them. When might I dwell with those who dwell together happily?

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Even in despair there are the most burning pleasures, especially when you are already very strongly conscious of

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Except in relation to your fellow men, have you ever known uncertainty? Have you ever observed how, within yourself

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Let’s not shirk digging. You can’t think decently if you don’t want to hurt yourself. I know all about it because I am

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think,

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To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

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Were all embodied beings to have their wish fulfilled, no one would suffer. No one wishes for suffering.

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In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

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My unhappiness is so complex, that it is difficult to describe. But probably the main thing is still loneliness.

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Like our ancestors, we stand still with fright and perplexity before ugliness, disease, misery, senility, death. All that

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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

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In order to allay my own suffering and to allay the suffering of others, I devote myself to others and accept them as myself.

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The more the evening wore on and the twilight grew denser, the more my impressions changed and became confused, and my

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Suffering – well, it is the sole determinant of consciousness. I did, though, set out at the beginning that consciousness, in

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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

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Why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive—in other words, only what is

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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

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I suffer much from the human, or rather inhuman, beings with whom I live – in short it is all as usual!

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Genius must submit to cultivate an ass within itself — the condition being so humiliating that man will seldom take up the

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think,...

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