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Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.


T.H. White


#dichotomy #happiness #pain #stoicism #beauty

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.


Lionel Trilling


#authoritarian #believe #cynical #form #heart

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.


Leon Trotsky


#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.


Richard Trumka


#american #american public #been #believe #best

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice.


Laura Anderson Kurk


#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.


Daniel Waters


#being #cruel #cynical #entertainment #evil

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.


Oscar Wilde


#everything #knows #man #nothing #price

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.


Paul Getty


#cynic #deny #i #i was born #pessimist

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.


Paul Getty


#circumstances #cynical #events #made #rich

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.


Michel Gondry


#cynical #humour #i #irony #makes






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