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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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
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What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
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