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Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too.

—Lemony Snicket in The Blank Book

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About Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler (born 1970) and a fictional character of his creation. Handler has published various children's books under the name, including A Series of Unfortunate Events (the first of which was published in 1999), which has sold over 60 million copies...

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Ideals are a curse because they prevent you from thinking directly, simply and truly, when you are faced with facts. The ideal, the what should be, is an escape from what is. The what is is the fact that you are afraid—afraid of what your parents will say, of what people will think, afraid of society, afraid of disease, death; and if you face what is, look at it, go into it even though it brings you misery, and understand it, then you will find that your mind becomes extraordinarily simple, clear; and in that very clarity there is the cessation of fear.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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