To Love is to Suffer - Woody Allen

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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.

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malevolarky 11 years, 3 months ago
From "Love and Death," I believe. Great film.
patpat 11 years, 9 months ago
Just the name of writer doesn't mean to be happy it can also be suffering.
jonsanders101 12 years, 8 months ago
It's meant to be satiric guys...
umvard 12 years, 11 months ago
I agree, tombrown. This Woody Allen fellow isn't much of a philosopher.
tombrown 13 years ago
illogical and just plain horrible.

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