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"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
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"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."
"All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know."
"Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
"Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much."
"I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny - that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be convertedinto words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
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