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• You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

  Brooke Shields

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• I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Earth, Conformity

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• Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

  Gifford Pinchot

  Pay The Price, Practice, Aggravation

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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

  John Fowles

  Century, Lack Of Time

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

  Robertson Davies

  Sad, Depression, Writing

  Robertson Davies (1999). “"For Your Eye Alone": Letters 1976-1995”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wretched

  "Hercules Œtæus", 754, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

  Zhang Yimou

  Art, People, Remember

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• It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

  Christine Keeler

  Christine

  "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

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• Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

  Margaret Atwood

  Regret, Loss, Journey

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Wall, Humility, Eye

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• People in misery is what most important in art.

  Zhang Yimou

  Art, People, Important

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• Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, People, Ego

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• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Moving, Rivers, Together

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• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  Fiona Shaw

  Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

  George Grosz

  Army, Soldier, Proud

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• Misery is the company of lawsuits.

  Francois Rabelais

  Feet, Company, Lawsuit

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• Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

  Arthur Adamov

  Long, Want, Fine

  Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”

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• Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Nature, Believe, Ignorance

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• Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Lying, Hard Times

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Men, Years

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• Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

  Philip Larkin

  Kids, Men, Hands

  High Windows (1974) "This Be The Verse"

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• Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hope, Born, Extremes

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Chapter 3: The Future of Mankind (p. 36), 1950.

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• I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Peace, Thinking, Confusion

  "Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler". Book by Tim Cole, p.35, 2000.

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• Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

  Duke of Wellington

  Battle, Next, Lost

  In Frances, Lady Shelley 'Diary' p. 102

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• Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Poverty, Should

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Trollope's Works”, p.81, 谷月社

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