"A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public."

Irony, Entertainment, Depression, Life

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"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

Nature

"I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we're both unhappy, and we both suffer."

Behavior

"I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness."

Mystery

"Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering."

Forgiveness

"And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort."

Curiosity

"Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."

Humanity

"Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!"

Grief

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime."

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"Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions."

Existence

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