It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

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Never Explain Anything

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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

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I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

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