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“Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky