“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
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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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