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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
    ― Emil Cioran
    tags: misanthropy, philosophy
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: hell, solipsism
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    Samuel Johnson
    “I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: humor, humour, mankind, misanthropy
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    Robert Anton Wilson
    “I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson
    tags: esoteric-wisdom, previous-thoughts
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    W.C. Fields
    “Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    U.G. Krishnamurti
    “Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. ”
    ― U. G. Krishnamurti
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    Giacomo Leopardi
    “Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
    ― Giacomo Leopardi
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    Denis Johnson
    “All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.”
    ― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
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    U.G. Krishnamurti
    “The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.”
    ― U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out
    tags: problem
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    Peter Wessel Zapffe
    “Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?”
    ― Peter Wessel Zapffe
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    Ernest Becker
    “Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: existentialism, meaning
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    Thomas Bernhard
    “Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
    ― Thomas Bernhard, Correction
    tags: funny, humor, inspirational
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: marriage
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    Peter Wessel Zapffe
    “A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”
    ― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays og Epistler
    tags: antinatalism, to-be-a-human-being
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am too young and I've loved you too much.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: men, women
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Alan Arkin
    “That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the res tof it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.”
    ― Alan Arkin, An Improvised Life: A Memoir
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly
    362 likes

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    Anne Sexton
    “Only my books anoint me,
    and a few friends,
    those who reach into my veins.”
    ― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
    tags: books, friends, poetry
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    Jean Giono
    “I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.”
    ― Jean Giono, An Italian Journey
    tags: misanthropy, solitude
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    Philip Larkin
    “They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
    They may not mean to, but they do.
    They fill you with the faults they had
    And add some extra, just for you.

    But they were fucked up in their turn
    By fools in old-style hats and coats,
    Who half the time were soppy-stern
    And half at one another's throats.

    Man hands on misery to man.
    It deepens like a coastal shelf.
    Get out as early as you can,
    And don't have any kids yourself.”
    ― Philip Larkin, High Windows
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    Philip Larkin
    “I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
    ― Philip Larkin
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    Philip Larkin
    “Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”
    ― Philip Larkin
    tags: poetry
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    Ranko Marinković
    “I tako uđe u naš život neko lice - nepoznanica. Ukrca se u našu mirnu (hm, mirnu?) plovidbu, zagonetni putnik koji nam odjednom oduzme svaki smisao za zbilju. Isiše naprosto svu volju i počinju naša slatka lutanja. Po iluzijama.”
    ― Ranko Marinković, Kiklop
    tags: love
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    Matt Haig
    “People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.”
    ― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
    tags: agoraphobia, anorexia, anxiety, bipolar, bulimia, depression, mental-illness, ocd, pstd
    104 likes

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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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    “The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there.”
    ― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis
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    Charles Bukowski
    “there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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