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“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Killing people is simple. All you have to do is forget the taste of sugar.”
― Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 4: Ayse's Friend
― Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 4: Ayse's Friend
“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Medea
― Medea
“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
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“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”
― She
― She
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