Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it’s exigencies.
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days… and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
