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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
absurdity came joke life lives order smell
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place. Kurt Braunohler
absurdity
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. Baruch Spinoza
absurdity cliches flow linguistic musical novels plays reveal voices zeal
was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power. Elfriede Jelinek
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. T. J. Miller
absurdity-of-life dancing laughing
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. Anne Lamott
absurdity concepts
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. David Lynch
absurdity-of-life absurdity bloody
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity Arthur Schopenhauer
absurdity descend happy
I get so happy to see someone like Jodie descend into absurdity and be human. Peter Sarsgaard
dies
Eventually everyone has to die, except Elvis. Dave Barry
dies seeking
To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on. William Shakespeare
dies
Until you die .. it's all life. Kurt Vonnegut
dies
You die and you die and then you are beyond death. C. S. Lewis
dies hype niches people run wireless
There are only so many new niches people can come up with. When everything's said and done, and all the hype dies down, you still have to run a wireless company. Eric Anderson
dies
Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.) Bram Stoker
dies
We're all going to die. Elizabeth Edwards
dies discover eternity great love moment seek stories truth
Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. Richard Flanagan
dies man
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. Wole Soyinka