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“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― The Wild Palms
― The Wild Palms
“Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Bring the Jubilee
― Bring the Jubilee
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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