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When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?
She's so full of pain, she's incapable of taking anyone else's pain seriously.
Because everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat... You're the one who uses our love for you to try to control us.
"A male does his best, reproductively, if he wanders and copulates as widely as possible." "I’ve done the wandering. Somehow I missed out on the copulating."
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
You've done all this thinking, you've seen all the possibilities for the future - good ones and bad ones alike — and yet the only ones you are willing to believe in, the imagined future that you seize upon as the foundation for all your moral judgments, is the only future in which everyone that you and I have ever loved and everything we'd ever hoped for must be obliterated.
"There are worse reasons to die, than to die because you cannot bear to kill." "What about someone who can’t kill, and can’t die, and can’t live, either?" "Don’t deceive yourself. You’ll do all three someday."
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
A question isn't an argument, unless you think you know my answer.
I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her.
"Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."
I speak to everyone in the language they understand. That isn’t being slick. It’s being clear.





