We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.

Samuel Beckett

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Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

Donald Barthelme

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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Henry Rollins

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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Gustave Flaubert

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I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).

Hexe Claire

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If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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