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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.

Kurt Vonnegut

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Appearance Instagram Captions People Sanity
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Gift Herself Life
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One Liner Philosophy
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom

If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.

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