"The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again."

Irony, Happiness, Loss, Recovery

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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

Observation, Metaphor, Perception, Irony, Truth

"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

Philosophy, Life, Death, Reality, Existence

"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

Philosophy, Truth, Perception, Understanding

"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

Wisdom, Secrecy, Trust, Mystery, Solitude

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

Truth, Disguise, Tongue, Speech

"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

Knowledge, Experience, Values, Worth

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"I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony"."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"And what's the irony?...In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"What happens if a car comes? We die."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Irony, Humor, Mortality, Truth, Reality

"Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Irony, Writing, Design, Preference

"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Irony, Madness, Truth, Agreement, Perception

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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."

"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."

"The most difficult things to grasp are the simplest."

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"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

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"Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods - a few seconds after he took Viagra."

"I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony"."

"The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again."

"And what's the irony?...In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?"

"What happens if a car comes? We die."

"Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself."

"Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text."

"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."

"The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion."

"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."