"The miserable's name is Man; he is..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
“Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.”
“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
More on Suffering
“They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.”
“Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises”
“For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.”
More on Misery
“Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.”
“Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?”
“There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.”