"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.“
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
-Allen Klein
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
-David Ortiz
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
-Mario Puzo
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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