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Isabella
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“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
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