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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
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“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”
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“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
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“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”
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“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
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“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
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“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.”
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“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.”
― The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
― The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
“Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?”
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“If knowledge that moves humanity forward can only be accessed by the rich, we're not moving humanity forward, we're moving the rich.”
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