“Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.”
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“Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.”
“Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.”
“Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.”
“The future is the worst thing about the present.”
“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”
“Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.”
“Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.”
“I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.”
“Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.”
“A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”
“Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.”
“I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !”
“In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.”
“There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.”
“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.”
“Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.”
“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.”
“Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.”