Quote #104

Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

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  1. What is art but the denial of life?
  2. To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
  3. In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered alm…
  4. I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise,…
  5. Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
  6. Enthusiasm is rude.
  7. The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
  8. My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?

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