To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by read more
The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid read more
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
Our chastisement or recompense.
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one read more
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
