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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
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“Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”
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“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.”
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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
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“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
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“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
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“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
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“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”
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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
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“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.”
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“Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.”
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“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
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“Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.”
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“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”
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“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”
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“It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.”
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“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
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“12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.”
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“Freedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.”
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“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
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“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”
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“A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”
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“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
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“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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“Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.”
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“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
