“Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.”
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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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