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Re: On Mankind
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat." -George Carlin
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"Life is but a doomed journey of misery and loneliness, punctuated by moments of suffering, and ending in total annihilation" - Zippy the Pinhead
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"It is not absurd to suppose that the extermination of man begins with the extermination of man's germs. One has only to consider the human being himself, complete with his emotions, his passions, his laughter, his sex and his secretions, to conclude that man is nothing but a dirty little germ--an irrational virus marring a universe of transparency. Once he has been purged, once everything has been cleaned up and all infection--whether of a social or a bacillary kind--has been driven out, then only the virus of sadness will remain in a mortally clean and mortally sophisticated world."
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"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
---Tears and Saints, E. M. Cioran
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Just reading this over, it occurs to me it would work just as well if we replaced the word "rapturous" with the word "sneering". | |||||||||||
“Absolutely candid, carefree, but straightforward speech becomes possible for the first time when one speaks of the highest." - Friedrich Schlegel
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