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“If you want to save the planet, then stop reproducing and allow humanity to go extinct. Let the animals inherit the Earth, we're not worthy.”
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“Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.”
― Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
― Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
“From the two things one: either my husband is a brutal, jealous one, or he’s a refined man; in the first hypothesis, the best I can do is to revenge myself for his conduct; in the second, I would know not to burden myself; since I taste of pleasures, he’ll be happy for it if he’s honest: there’s not a refined man who doesn’t take pleasure at the spectacle of the happiness of the person he adores.”
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
― Philosophy in the Boudoir
“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”
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“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. And love leads us to no other happiness than that of love itself and its tragic consolation of uncertain hope. The moment love becomes happy and satisfied, it no longer desires and it is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. We are the more—that is the more divine—the greater our capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”
― Tragic Sense of Life
― Tragic Sense of Life
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