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“The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.”
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“When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.”
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“Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.”
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“If we could only get rid of consciousness. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal kingdom under the conditions of this earth is very well--but as soon as you know of your slavery, the pain, the anger, the strife--the tragedy begins. We can't return to nature, since we can't change our place in it. Our refuge is in stupidity [...] There is no morality, no knowledge, and no hope; there is only the consciousness of ourselves which drives us about a world that [...] is always but a vain and floating appearance.”
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“It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.”
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