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From Quotes by Flann O'Brien
- Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the…
- After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I…
- The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say…
- Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
- Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of…
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