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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"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."
"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."
"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."
"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."
"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."
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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
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