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“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
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― John Cleese

“People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.”
― Douglas Coupland

“We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you.
We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too.
For you, this translate into confidence. But me?
All I can feel is doubt.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“All other beer is ass, and I will not put in the the work to acquire the taste for things that taste like ass.”
― Baratunde R. Thurston, How to Be Black

“There's no perk in being closed-minded as a minority. It's never, ever, ever going to help you, ever.”
― Baratunde R. Thurston, How to Be Black

“Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.”
― The Oatmeal, 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides

“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod

“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”
― David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law

“More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.”
― Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

“Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.”
― Katherine Alice Applegate, The Beginning

“On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.”
― Mira Grant, Blackout

“Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.”
― Mira Grant, Blackout

“You’re evil, you know that?” I said.
She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One