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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

"I am alive because you want me to."

"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."

"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."

"The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."

"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor."

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
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