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Voltaire

"You are very harsh.''I have seen the world."

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"You are very harsh.''I have seen the world."

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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."

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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

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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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"The world will go on with or without humanity."

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"When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world."

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"The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real."

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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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