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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

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The secret to life is that there is no secret.

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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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