Profound Quotes
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“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”
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“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.”
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“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.”
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“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.”
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“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”
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“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.”
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“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”
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“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.”
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“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”
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“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.”
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“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”
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“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children

“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”
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“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”
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“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.”
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“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”
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“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.”
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“I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and years. Because each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
Insightful, p.194”
― Invisibility
Insightful, p.194”
― Invisibility

“There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.”
― The High Mountains of Portugal
― The High Mountains of Portugal

“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.”
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“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove. I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible - actually a profound position. Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision - these set a distance.”
― On Writing
― On Writing
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