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“The past, in our remembering of it, is more beautiful than the present, as is the future in our imagining of it. Why? Because the present alone has its true form in human conception. It is the only image of truth, and everything true is ugly.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“Love of God in that state that Christianity calls absolute perfection is only and can only be a love of self applied solely to ones own good, and not to that of ones fellows. Now this is precisely what is called egoism (oct 9, 1821)”
― Leopardi

“When someone sleeps they become a child again, perhaps because in sleep one can do no evil and one is unaware even of ones own existence. By some natural magic, the worst criminal, the most inveterate egotist, is made sacred by sleep. I can see no perceptible difference between killing a child and killing someone while they sleep.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Parenthood is the opiate of the people”
― Chuck Palahniuk