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No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will…
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Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long…
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek…
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Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,
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The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them.…
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Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
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That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down…
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not…
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In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if…
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Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
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Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.
— Florence King
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When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal…
— Noah Cicero
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One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do…
— Jil Sander
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It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
— Robert Smith
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If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!
— Philip K. Dick
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Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist…
— Terry Eagleton
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[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it…
— Hermann Hesse
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him…
— Franz Kafka
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