![]() ![]() ![]() A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ![]() Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities.Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ![]()
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