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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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"A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice."
"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."
"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble."
"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."
"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
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