"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age."

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"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

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"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."

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"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone."

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