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“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: absurdity, mystical, truth, words

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“By repeatedly losing worthy battles with the self, I gain a sense of faithful mysticism that a person’s realizes whenever his or her paltry earthly reality fails to match up their quixotic notions.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: battles-of-life, critic, mystic, mystical, mysticism, self-critic, self-critical, self-criticism, self-critique, self-study-self-examination

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“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken. ”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

tags: broken, deceit, deception, denial, deny, funny, honest, honesty, humor, illogical, illusion, lie, lie-detector, lies, life, love, machine, relationships, suspicion, women, word-junkies

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“I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, “Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How’s Carol?” involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble. So give your kid a break, okay?”
― Douglas Adams

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