"The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always."
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"Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best."
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"Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it"
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"In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry."
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"My pessimism has never been flabby."
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