“Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.”
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“people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”
― Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”
― Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
“Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radioactive, Biological, or Chemical weapons capable of causing mass casualties and great destruction.
I wonder why humans aren't on the list?”
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I wonder why humans aren't on the list?”
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“Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.”
― Maximes et Pensées: Caractères et Anecdotes
― Maximes et Pensées: Caractères et Anecdotes
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