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Life is tough; thank God there's design.

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Marcel Proust

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

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