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"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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