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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Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most,
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Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most,
That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?
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Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
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And life is perfected by Death.
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Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
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And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
