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No Longer Human

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“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

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“Well, bless my soul, what stupid creatures one has to mix with in this world!”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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“What a dim-witted slug the average human being is.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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“He felt vaguely that he would be leaving something behind, something that might have been precious to him, had he been able to know what it was.”
― John Williams, Butcher's Crossing

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“I became a new being, and the subject of my own admiration. I was a traveler! A word never had tasted so good in my mouth before. I had an exultant sense of being bound for mysterious lands and distant climes which I never have felt in so uplifting a degree since. I was in such a glorified condition that all ignoble feelings departed out of me, and I was able to look down and pity the untraveled with a compassion that had hardly a trace of contempt in it.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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