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Candide
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“All this was indispensable,” replied the one-eyed doctor, “for private misfortunes make the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are the greater is the general good.”
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“As I was hiking down the mountain woth my pack I turned and I knelt on the trail and said "Thank you, Shack". The I added "Blah" with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would know what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions"
"That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.”
― The Dharma Bums
"That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.”
― The Dharma Bums
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