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Herren Herro

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“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

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“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: contrast, itself, pleasure

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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
― Anais Nin

tags: diary-entry

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