What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.
What is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?
This need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression of the miserable side of humanity.
Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up single – handed a desperate struggling against the onslaught of an army of opponents. Is not this characteristic of the miserable nature of mankind? The dullness, grossness, perversity, silliness, and brutality of by far the greater part of the race are always an obstacle to the efforts of the genius, whatever be the method of his art; they so form that hostile army to which he at last has to succumb.
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.