Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
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Aeschylus
Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.
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Marty Rubin
Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?
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David Gianadda
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Anonymous
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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Hans Christian Andersen
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She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.
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Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.
I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.
Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!
