We prefer to suffer than to recover from those ills that defines us.
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Tragedy is humiliation accepted, comedy humiliation resisted. This is why, at the ends of their careers, most politicians aspiring to the former condition achieve only the latter.
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The mind that reads is too full of itself to mind what is written. So we sit, inattentive to our inattention, regarding ourselves pretending to understand.
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How strange to be afraid of the dark. Even with the lights on, we have to go to sleep in our heads.
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The gall, the presumption of the builder's shout: 'Cheer up mate, it might never happen.' For all he knows, it already has.
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Love is the opposite of hate but friendship is its antidote.
