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The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes. Like successful Chicago gangsters, our genes have survived, in some cases for millions of years, in a highly competitive world. This entitles us
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Selfish gene
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
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“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
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