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“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
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“from Phaedrus, I believe, the other from Bias.1 Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life – for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes – I throw all my useless baggage in the sea, that’s all, and remain with my will, prepared to live entirely alone and consequently entirely free.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
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