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When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No sh

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. – H.L. Mencken

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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – H.L. Mencken

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A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. – H.L. Mencken

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. – Stendhal

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