Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Sin is geographical.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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