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Thomas Ligotti has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive.…
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Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With…
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Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a…
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But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a…
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Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.
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Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with…
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And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is…
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For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things…
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid…
— Evelyn Underhill
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If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a…
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What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government…
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War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.
— Winston Churchill
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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there…
— Mark Twain
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood.…
— Harold Pinter
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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering…
— Henry George
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,…
— Charles Dickens
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