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“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness — a savagery without stain.”
― Martin Amis, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

“جميل اننا ما زلنا قادرين على البكاء فالدموع هي خلاصنا إذ ان هناك اوقاتا ان لم نستطع البكاء فيها فسوف نموت”
― جوزيه ساراماجو, Blindness

“Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?”
― Kelly Braffet

“Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have. When the sage says: "Go over," he does not mean that we should cross over to some actual place, which we could do anyhow if the labor were worth it; he means some fabulous yonder, something unknown to us, something too that he cannot designate more precisely, and therefore cannot help us here in the very least. All these parables really set out to say merely that the incomprehensible is incomprehensible, and we know that already. But the cares we have to struggle with every day: that is a different matter.

Concerning this a man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid yourself of all your daily cares.

Another said: I bet that is also a parable.

The first said: You have won.

The second said: But unfortunately only in parable.

The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.”
― Boris Vian, L'écume des jours

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human and the ambushing fears of the deep night were coming on.

Ralph moaned faintly. Tired though he was, he could not relax and fall into a well of sleep for fear of the tribe. Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast.

"'Cos I had some sense.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies