Quotes by Hubert-Selby-Jr.
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Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
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But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
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I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
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