George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Suffering
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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Here there is nothing but love and beauty. Ugh! it is like sitting for all eternity at the first act of a fashionable play, before the complications begin. Never in my worst moments of superstitious terror on earth did I dream that Hell was so horrible. I live, like a hairdresser, in the continual contemplation of beauty, toying with silken tresses. I breathe an atmosphere of sweetness, like a confectioner's shopboy.