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“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
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Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
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“Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.”
― The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
― The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
“Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.”
― The Joke
― The Joke
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
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