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“Once, in the South Atlantic, I saw a whaler in the process of killing a female accompanied by one of her offspring. The harpooner, a red-bearded Irishman, kept putting harpoons into the whale. The intestines were hanging out of the mangled body of the huge animal, and nevertheless it continued to swim back and forth in the water made red by its blood, trying with its shattered body to shield the little whale. Since then, and the sight of that harpooner's freckled face as he laughed derisively, and of that poor creature, faithful to the end, I have believed in the existence of Satan as I believe in the existence of God.”
― Diary of a Man in Despair
― Diary of a Man in Despair
“Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it’s too late.”
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“INTERVIEWER: Why are you working as a home security guard? Aren’t there things you’d like to do?
H.S. GUARD: There’s not really anything I’d like to do. I’m more hoping for the world to end quickly.”
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H.S. GUARD: There’s not really anything I’d like to do. I’m more hoping for the world to end quickly.”
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“What aristocratic writers are given by nature for nothing, commoners acquire at the cost of their youth”
― A Life in Letters
― A Life in Letters
“The regime's political strategy depends on planting landmines throughout society. But the mine doesn't explode if you place your leg on it - it explodes when you remove your leg from it. The regime planted the land mines, then placed our legs on them so that if the regime goes, society will explode.”
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