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What if
everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case,
I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
-- Woody Allen
1935-, American Director,
Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian
The wise man,
knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having
constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an
attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man
who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived
with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a
comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was
nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages.
What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to
find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he
is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind
or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.
-- Emile Durkheim
1858-1917, French Sociologist
We could
hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the
trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in
our souls to destroy.
-- Alexander Herzen
1812-1870, Russian
Journalist, Political Thinker
I saw that all
beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way
of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the
weakness of the brain.
-- Arthur Rimbaud
1854-1891, French Poet
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