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Aphorism #311

In a cynic, the heart is a vestigial organ.

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Definition #6

A pessimist is just somebody whose worst fears keep coming true.

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Christopher Spranger, from The Effort to Fall

It is not a way of life that a wise man proposes, but a way around life. * You say nothing could be further from the truth. I say nothing could be further than truth. * Sophistry is what reason becomes when it is employed for the purpose of reconciling us to life. * So [...]

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Brutal Truths, Bitter Wisdom, Gallows Humor The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness. — Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton – You are free and that is why you are lost. – In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world. — Franz Kafka You fall out of your mother’s [...]

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