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“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
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“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
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