I’d thought that it was life itself that had ground me down – that my sadness stemmed from spiritual malaise. After spending two hours with a book, and finding it more pleasurable than two years of real life, I’d remember again that life had no meaning, and sink back into despair.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. - William Dean Howells

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Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life. — Marcus Aurelius

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ― Mark Twain

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ― Elbert Hubbard

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Magic is Wisdom in Transit", for there's no black or white Magic". Its just Wisdom in Transit. ― Robert Frost

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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