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“To marry means to do everything possible to become an object of disgust to each other.”
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“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
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“Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard.”
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“Life has no intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion.”
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“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death. The truth … was that this world could not have been the work of an all-loving Being, but rather that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings; to this the data pointed, and the belief that it is so won the upper hand.”
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