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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. РPaul Val̩ry, Mauvaises pens̩es et autres, 1942

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – William Shakespeare, King Lear

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[M]an is a machine made expressly for sorrow; he has only five senses with which to receive pleasure, and suffering comes to him through the whole surface of his body…. The man who does not suffer is an ill-made machine, an imperfect creature… – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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