"To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?"

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“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”

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“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.”

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“A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?”

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"Finally, and perhaps most important, to the extent that the bad things in life really are necessary, our lives are worse than they would be if the bad things were not necessary. There are both real an…"

— David Benatar

Philosophy1966

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"It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. And I am not being frivolous h…"

— James Baldwin

Social Activism1924–1987

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"I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, …"

— Jonathan Swift

Literature1943–2010

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