"What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering."

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Source : Bernard Malamud (2004). “The Fixer: A Novel”, p.333, Macmillan

Bernard Malamud

#Suffering Quotes #Taught Quotes #Uselessness Quotes

“Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest....”
“The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.”
“I find 12 P.M. as the best time to work out. During training, I do two body parts a day: chest-back, back-triceps or chest-biceps so that my body doesn't get used to a pattern.”
“I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.”
“The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.”
“Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...”
“Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.”
“It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,”

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