A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
KURT VONNEGUTWhat should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Science is magic that works.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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