#miser

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable. ↗

— Viola Davis

#doing #i #i love #love #miserable

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#guy #happy #i #married #me

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#manifold #misery #wretchedness

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. ↗

— Marion Milner

#believe #could #ever #find #had

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#day #else #good #good thing #miserable

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#artist #miserable #misery #write #writer

When the nettle is young, the leaves make excellent greens; when it grows old it has filaments and fibers like hemp and flax. Cloth made from the nettle is as good as that made from hemp. Chopped up, the nettle is good for poultry; pounded, it is good for horned cattle. The seed of the nettle mixed with the fodder of animals gives a luster to their skin; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow dye. It makes, however, excellent hay, as it can be cut twice in a season. And what does the nettle need? very little soil, no care, no culture; except that the seeds fall as fast as they ripen, and it is difficult to gather them; that is all. If we would take a little pains, the nettle would be useful; we neglect it, and it becomes harmful. Then we kill it. How much men are like the nettle! My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les-miserables #nettle #worthiness #beauty

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les-miserables #politics #victor-hugo #faith