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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."
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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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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 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."
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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
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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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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
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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."
Pessimism
"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."
Art
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Paradise
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Man
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
Existence
"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."
Corruption
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
Dream
"Reality is not always probable, or likely."
Reality
"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
Death
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