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2 years ago - If you know, in the morning, what your day looks like with any precision, you are a little bit dead - the more precision, the more dead you are.
- You never win an argument until they attack your person.
- Hatred is much harder to fake than love. You hear of fake love; never of fake hate.
- By praising someone for his lack of defects you are also implying his lack of virtues.
- When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.
- For the compassionate, sorrow is more easily displayed by another than by joy.
- The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane: everything else on your eyelids manipulates you with an ad.
- You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
- Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
- You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
- People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.
- Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
- The most depressing aspect of the lives of the couples you watch surreptitiously arguing in restaurants is that they are almost always unaware of the true subject of argument.
- The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
- True love is the complete victory of the particular over the general, and the unconditional over the conditional.
- The tragedy is that much of what you think is random is in your control and, what's worse, the opposite.
- Life's beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an outsider not interested in reciprocation.
- True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.
- Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
- The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
- Some reticent people use silence to conceal their intelligence; but most do so to hide the lack of it.
- For company, you often prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting.
- Half the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
- At any stage, humans can thirst for money, knowledge, or love; sometimes for two, never for three.
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