For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and
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“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“In this world, you get what you pay for.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
― The Moon and Sixpence
― The Moon and Sixpence
“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.”
― The Moon and Sixpence
― The Moon and Sixpence
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