Quotes 281 till 287 of 287.
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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
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