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Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own ...

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We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

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Graham GreeneThe Heart of the Matter

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation...

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He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would b...

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to...

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Even if the powers destroy us," he said, "who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word...

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The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love...

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So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone...

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Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

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Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.

But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks t...

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Ursula K. Le GuinPlanet of Exile / Mankind Under the Leash

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to ...

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What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...

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Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requ...

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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first ink...

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