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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. – Martin Esslin

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I do not believe in revealed religion — I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another. – Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811

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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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