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MilesColtrane

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3. To love is to suffer.

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Sat Jan 14, 2012, 04:38 AM

Jan 2012

To avoid suffering, one must not love.

But then one suffers from not loving.

Therefore, to love is to suffer.

Not to love is to suffer.

To suffer is to suffer.

To be happy is to love.

To be happy, then, is to suffer,

but suffering makes one unhappy.

Therefore, to be unhappy one must love,

or love to suffer,

or suffer from too much happiness...

I hope you're getting this down.

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