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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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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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"If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that, you will help on by your pessimism action to prove you are right."
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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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"Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations."
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"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
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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."
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"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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"Life itself is a quotation."
Life
"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
Mortality
"I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise."
Art
"The three of them knew it. She was Kafka's mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka's friend. Kafka had dreamt him. The three of them knew it. The woman said to the friend, Tonight I want you to have me. The three of them knew it. The man replied: If we sin, Kafka will stop dreaming us. One of them knew it. There was no longer anyone on earth. Kafka said to himself Now the two of them have gone, I'm left alone. I'll stop dreaming myself."
Dream
"I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology."
Philosophy
"Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process."
Time
"I kept asking myself how a book could be infinite. I could not imagine any other than a cyclic volume, circular. A volume whose last page would be the same as the first and so have the possibility of continuing indefinitely."
Philosophy
"Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing."
Philosophy
"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
Books
"There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her."
Love
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