Status Updates From Diary of a Superfluous Man

"Generally, people like me expect everything in the world except the very thing that must happen according to the natural flow of events."

"A happy man is like a fly in the sunshine."

While a man is truly living, he has no sensation of his own life; like a sound, it becomes clear to him only a short time later.
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Emotional outbursts are like licorice root: when you take your first lick of it, it doesn't seem so bad, but then it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.