Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakene

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

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