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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
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"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
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"Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations."
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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
Being
"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
Art
"Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind."
Idea
"Theories pass. The frog remains."
Theory
"I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance."
Appearance
"Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you."
Wife
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
God
"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of."
Science
"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."
Contempt
"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."
Paradise
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