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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.


Ambrose Bierce


#definition #honesty #vision

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.


Niccolò Machiavelli


#dire #religious

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?


Gabrielle Zevin


#memoir

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.


Jenny Holzer


#cynicism #politics #cynicism

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.


H.P. Lovecraft


#cynic #existence #suicide #cynicism

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.


Peter M. Senge


#idealism #cynicism

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.


Dorothy Parker


#cynicism

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.


Colum McCann


#naive #cynicism

- "They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.


Iain Banks


#cynical #dialogue #paranoid #cynicism

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.


Josh Lanyon


#cynicism






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