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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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Personal Development
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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Personal Development
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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Personal Development
"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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Personal Development
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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Personal Development
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
Needs
"Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal."
Being
"Technology favors horrible people."
Technology
"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
People
"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."
Family
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
Connection
"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life."
Life
"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
Cultural
"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."
Being
"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
Nothing
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