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Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other…
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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has…
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the…
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Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife…
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What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they…
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to…
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a…
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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
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The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
— Epicurus
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better…
— C.S. Lewis
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And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a…
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
— Dick Gregory
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Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to…
— Dr Carl Sagan
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Hey downer, don't prey on me. We've all got bum raps that torment us day to day.
— Bad Religion
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