Status Updates From Intimate Notebook 1840-1841

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and un­ building ourselves"

"I don't see that the emancipation of Negroes and women is such a fine thing.."

No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mud-blood :>

"I don't see that the emancipation of Negroes and women is such a fine thing.."

No one asked opinion, you filthy little Mud-blood :>

A joke is the most powerful thing there is, the most terrible; it is irresistible. There is no appeal from it, either to reason or to feeling-a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. Voltaire was the king of his century because he knew how to laugh

The only thing that distinguishes man from the animals is that he eats when he is not hungry, drinks when he is not thirsty-free will!!