Aphorism Quotes
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“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”
― The Castle
― The Castle
“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”
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“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
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“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
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“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
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“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
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“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”
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“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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“Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.”
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“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”
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“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
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