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“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
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“The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)”
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“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
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“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
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