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The optimist says the glass is half filled; the pessimist says the glass is half empty; the nihilist says : "Half full or half empty, the water is poisoned".

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"To believe one has fallen-when each success has merely been a fluke."

"What is regret when even the prospect of failure abandons me?"

"Innocent-I thought I could endure my success; corrupted-I thought I could endure my failure. Nowhere to go now."

"Mystery of the self: joy for what I have been, despite not knowing who or what creature has lived in me."

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Nihilist is what we call a relativist we dislike.

All black cats may be the same in a darkened room but the one with rabies will stand out.

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Whoever said you can't get blood from a stone clearly wasn't squeezing hard enough.

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Ooooh! May I use that sometime?

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"No one in the history of language has done more damage to the craft of writing prose than Jack Kerouac. He is to Joyce as C.P.E. Bach is to J.S. Bach.; as Johann Strauss is to Richard Strauss."

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"The Beats confused run-on sentences in the vernacular with authenticity. Such mannerisms will never make a writer's conjectures and reminiscences more valid."

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Who needs the Great Gatsby when you've got the Great Cthulhu?

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The impossible task of human consciousness is to make chaos cohere.

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Every leader of every country has blood on his hands; the good leaders endure it; the bad ones exult in it.

Even God was perplexed by the perversity of the human heart; like many a great artist, He found His creation more stubbornly complex than intended.

To forgive and forget is not difficult; wanting to do so is.

When you were born, a world of love and hate, of Gods and Devils, was created; obviously, your powers of imagination are great.

If bullets were outlawed and wars were fought by soldiers hurling handfuls of excrement, men might come to their senses and ask, "Who needs this s*it?" (No dung, no glory).