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But what is all this

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Let us not look back

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Philosophy offers the rather cold

Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.
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It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy

It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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Let us not look back

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
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The wit makes fun of

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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I loathe the expression What

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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Her own mother lived the

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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There is no safety in

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Early to rise and early

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
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