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"Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions."
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"I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class"

"You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world."

"In the equation of life, the limit does not exist."

"When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children"

"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness."

"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."

"There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."

"Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a damage beyond compensation"

"The choices I didn't make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did."
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"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
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