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    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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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

by Cyril Connolly Found in: Writers Quotes,
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

by T. S. Eliot Found in: Writers Quotes,
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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

by Thomas Merton Found in: Suffering Quotes,
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
[Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,
Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]

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Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not read more

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

by Heinrich Suso Found in: Suffering Quotes,
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The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

by Woody Allen Found in: Suffering Quotes,
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Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

by Marcel Proust Found in: Suffering Quotes,
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance

by Dan Greenburg Found in: Writers Quotes,
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