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“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Civilizations, from the perspective of history, are shown to be the outcome of mixtures and borrowings, often of quite arbitrary things, but always on a prodigious scale.”
― What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
― What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
― Lucky In Love Greeting Card
― Lucky In Love Greeting Card
“It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.”
― The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
― The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
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