Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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