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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Children don’t know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There’s”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

Arthur Schopenhauer
“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“And so it goes...”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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