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“If you stay alive for no reason at all, please do it for spite.”
― Maria Bamford

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“Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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“Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: negative, unhappiness

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“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: labels, manners

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“Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: conditions, constant, shape, strategy, war, water

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