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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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“Explaining basic probability to a group of people can be best qualified as futile.”
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“The question of where Europe ends and Asia begins has troubled many people over the years, but here's a rule of thumb: if someone can pose as an expert on the country in question without knowledge of the relevant language, it's part of Asia.”
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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
“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
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