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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
The heart was made to be broken
The heart was made to be broken
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's read more
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men read more
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam read more
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae
metuant.]
Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?
Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
