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Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical p...

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As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every ...

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Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has give...

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Jane Welsh CarlyleThe Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: July 1847-March 1848

It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

What agony he suffered as he watched that light, in whose golden atmosphere were moving, behind the ...

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."]

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling ...

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The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

In the midst of aches in the joints, anxiety over the payment of bills, concern for the safety of th...

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Perhaps all pleasure in only relief

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our work...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his f...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...

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Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entit...

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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief f...

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