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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
    tags: dream, existence
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: inspiration
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
    tags: adventure, death, life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: insanity, inspiration
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
    tags: cats, cynic, existence, suicide
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    Bill Watterson
    “People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: idiots, life-humor
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
    tags: government, ideas, idiots, laws
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “My thoughts’, said the wanderer to his shadow, ‘should show me where I stand, but they should not betray to me where I am going. I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, whiskey
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series
    tags: diplomacy, love, outrage
    777 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
    tags: cabbage, cooking, fragrance, humor, idealism, metaphors, perfume, roses, similes
    472 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: cynic, definitions
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
    tags: belief, democracy, government, humor, ignorance, intelligence, pathetic, political-commentary, politics, public-office
    355 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: activist, patriotism
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    H.L. Mencken
    “On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
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    H.L. Mencken
    “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: politics
    249 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: materialism, money
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    H.L. Mencken
    “A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: black-cat, blind, cat, funny, humor, joke, lie, lies, looking, man, metaphysics, misattributed-h-l-mencken, philosopher, philosophy, religion, search, theologian, theology, untruth, untruthful, wishful-thinking
    148 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: christianity, communism, religion
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
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  • #23
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64643 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Michel Houellebecq
    “Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
    ― Michel Houellebecq, Platform
    tags: life, nothing
    429 likes

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    Michel Houellebecq
    “Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
    ― Michel Houellebecq, Platform
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    Michel Houellebecq
    “Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction of the absolute futility of human aspiration. The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. The skies will be glacial and empty, traversed by the feeble light of half-dead stars. These too will disappear. Everything will disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure ‘Victorian fictions.’ All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant.”
    ― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
    80 likes



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