"Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#People Quotes #Misery Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.”
“I don't want to work on stuff I don't like.”
“Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.”
“The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of radiation are Hertzian waves of the kind used in broadcasting. About every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. Perhaps then I may describe the end of the physical world as-one stupendous broadcast.”
“Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.”

Source : "Satyricon (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures)". Book by Petronius (Chapter XCIV), late 1st century AD.
“Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.”
“If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it”
“Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.”

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