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I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, m...

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Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest intere...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

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You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, ...

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot...

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We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a m...

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You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colo...

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There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affa...

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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the...

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By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world inste...

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I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with ...

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There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish ...

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Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramen...

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I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope...

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You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate...

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Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between her...

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I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council,...

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Dennis PotterThe Singing Detective

...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel ...

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I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends...

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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; ma...

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I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, aft...

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The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use...

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If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes ...

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