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“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Platform
― Platform
“I am not sorrowful but I am tired
Of everything that I ever desired.”
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Of everything that I ever desired.”
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“The logic of pessimism moves through three refusals: a no-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-for-us, or Schopenhauer’s tears); a yes-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-in-itself, or Nietzsche’s laughter); and a no-saying to the for-us and the in-itself (a double refusal, or Cioran’s sleep).
Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
― Cosmic Pessimism
Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
― Cosmic Pessimism
“Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression.
I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
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