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Anthony Liccione
“The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.”
― Anthony Liccione

Kamand Kojouri
“I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

Johann Gottlieb Fichte
“The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Religious and Philosophical Writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Lisa J. Shultz
“In addition to asking myself if something was a benefit or a burden for me to keep or if it was superfluous, I also questioned if it enriched my life now. If the answer was no, I ditched it.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

Steven Redhead
“Eliminate the superfluous that tries to enter your thoughts.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

Ivan Turgenev
“This MS. was read, and contents thereof
disapproved,
by Peter Zudotyeshin. M. M. M. M.
Dear Sir, Peter Zudotyeshin, My dear Sir.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Diary of a Superfluous Man

Giannis Delimitsos
“All these little things that delight us and are not indispensable for a living; only these are worth living for. A meaning hiding in the superfluous!”
― Giannis Delimitsos

Dada Bhagwan
“In marriage, at home and everywhere else, one is to remain superfluous. That is where people go in deep into; that is called the worldly life (sansaar).”
― Dada Bhagwan

Arkady Strugatsky
“...And what if I turn out to be
completely superfluous in their system?"
He livened up.
"What if we are superfluous?”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

“Lacing prose with supposed facts that actually lack meaning is but one case of a more general habit of writing text superfluous to the goal of relaying information.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

Brian Spellman
“People are basically good but platitudes are basically useless and basically is basically superfluous.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.