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“Come, let us wage a holy war!”

“To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal:”

“She noted with delight that he really did say "Ha!" This made a valuable addition to her collection. She had lately acquired a "Humph!" and two "Whews!" but she was still waiting in vain for a "Pshaw!”

“And I am a mockery, who was God before.”

“In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;”

Resonant Thoughts

"The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps even something deeper …"

— Don DeLillo

Literature1936

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"Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true."

— Jean Baudrillard

Philosophy1929–2007

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"There is something in each of us that wants us to be unhappy. It creates in our imaginations problems that don't exist - quite often causing them to be true. It exaggerates problems that are already t…"

— Benjamin Hoff

Literature1946

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