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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head."

"To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was."

"And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another."

"What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the earth, my arms on the handlebars and on my arms my head, rocking and abandoned. It is indeed a delporable sight, a deplorable example, for the people, who so need to be encouraged, in their bitter toil, and to have before their eyes manifestations of strength only, of courage and joy, without which they might collapse, at the end of the day, and roll on the ground."

"Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her."

"But it is only since I have ceased to live that I think of these things and the other things. It is in the tranquillity of decomposition that I remember the long confused emotion which was my life, and that I judge it, as it is said that God will judge me, and with no less impertinence. To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets."
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