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Arthur Schopenhauer

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

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"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."

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"I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it."

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"Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction."

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"You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show."

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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

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"Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough."

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"It couldn't have been gonorrhea, which never stops eating you up of its own accord. Why should it ever stop of its own accord? It's having such a nice time. Why call off the party? Look how healthy and happy the kids are."

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"Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one."

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"This is the best world that we live in To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow or beg or to get a man's own It is the worst world that ever was known."

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