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Unhappiness Quotes by Mason Cooley

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Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

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Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

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The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

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Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

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I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

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The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

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The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

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Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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Money comes to life as it is spent.

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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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The body has a mind of its own.

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In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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