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    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    ― August Strindberg, Miss Julie
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    “Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.”
    ― Mike Royko
    tags: cynicism, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: cynicism, good-and-evil, idealism, politics, vetinari
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    John Updike
    “The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”
    ― John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich
    tags: 1981, cynicism, rabbit-angstrom, teotwawki
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    Voltaire
    “I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”
    ― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism
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    “It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: bossypants, tina-fey
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    Oli Anderson
    “I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.”
    ― Oli Anderson
    tags: existentialism, love, love-quotes, meaning, meaninglessness, nihilism, reality, romance, sex
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  • #11
    “The problem with arguments is that it never adds up to any value to the subject.”
    ― Aditya Ajmera
    tags: arguments, meaninglessness, value
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    Albert Camus
    “If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
    tags: existentialism, nihilism, philosphy
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep
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    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
    tags: ambition, ambition-and-attitude, ambition-life-ambitions, ambition-quote, ambition-quotes, ambitions, bangambiki, barbarity, cruel, cruel-people, cruel-world, cruelties, cruelty, devil, devil-quotes, dictatorship, enormity, evil, evil-man, evil-men, evil-people, evil-quotes, evil-spirit, evil-thoughts, evil-words, evilness, evils, good, good-and-evil, good-and-evil-quote, good-and-evil-quotes, good-deeds, good-deeds-quotes, good-vs-evil, inhumanity, iniquitious, iniquity, lies-politics, love-of-power, lust-for-power, macchiavelli, machiavellian, misuse-of-power, political, political-ambition, political-ambition-quotes, political-correctness, political-philosophy, politicians, politics, power, power-addiction, survival-instinct, survival-is-the-name-of-the-game, survival-of-the-fittest, survival-quotes, survival-story, survivalism, survivalist, survive, surviving-life, survivor, the-great-pearl-of-wisdom, universe, universe-quotations, universe-quote, universe-quotes, wicked, wicked-intensions, wicked-people, wickedness
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    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “The most savage of human kind are the most advanced”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
    tags: barbarity, cruel, cruel-people, cruel-world, cruelties, cruelty, enormity, evil, evil-man, evil-men, evil-people, evil-spirit, evil-thoughts, evil-words, evilness, evils, good-vs-evil, inhumanity, iniquitious, iniquity, wicked, wicked-intensions, wicked-people, wickedness
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    E.M. Forster
    “Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Howards End
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    Susan Beth Pfeffer
    “But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”
    ― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
    tags: death, hell
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?” ”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: universe
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
    ― Tennessee Williams
    tags: death, suffering
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    Eugène Ionesco
    “Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”
    ― Eugene Ionesco
    tags: humor, writer
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    Eugène Ionesco
    “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ”
    ― Eugene Ionesco
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  • #26
    William Gibson
    “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
    ― William Gibson
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