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#1

“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: infatuation, love, love-hurts

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#2

“Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: temptation

9 likes

#3

“We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: life-quotes

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#4

“We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: humor, knowledge, learning

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#5

“Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: race, race-relations, racism

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#6

“Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: stereotypes

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#7

“Laughing is the body’s approval of the absurd.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: laughing

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#8

“A joke is a question of mind over manner.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: jokes

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#9

“To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: making-mistakes

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#10

“Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: sympathy-vs-empathy

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#11

“Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: marriage

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#12

“To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: religion

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#13

“Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.”
― Anthony Marais, The Cure

tags: ignorance, lies-lying-liars, truth

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#14

“Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: sin

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#15

“No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: philosophy

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#16

“If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: death, life, perfect-enlightenment

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#17

“Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: fantasy

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#18

“When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don’t scratch it!”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: fantasy

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#19

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: writers

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#20

“Somethingism is better than nihilism.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: nihilism

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#21

“Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: novelty

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#22

“From our myopia arose our dystopia.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

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#23

“Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: wisdom-quote

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#24

“We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don’t die that way.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: wisdom-quote

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#25

“There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

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#26

“The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: plagiarism

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#27

“Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: marriage, relationships

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#28

“It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.”
― Anthony Marais, Delusionism

tags: life-philosophy

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#29

“We would like to think of death as a release from the pressures of existence, but this is a fatally mistaken thought: it is the ultimate culmination of those pressures.”
― Anthony Marais

tags: death-and-dying

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#30

“Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.”
― Anthony Marais

tags: honesty-quotes, literature, lying-to-ourselves

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