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"If a man only writes well when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer:What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while." — Apr 08, 2026 10:45AM
"If a man only writes well when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer:What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while." — Apr 08, 2026 10:45AM
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
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“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.”
― On the Suffering of the World
― On the Suffering of the World
“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
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“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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