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Fear follows crime and is its punishment. ↗

— Voltaire

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. ↗

— Voltaire

#bored #done #evil #i #know

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. ↗

— Voltaire

#die #feet #i #lie #like

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. ↗

— Voltaire

#god #his #image #more #own

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ↗

— Voltaire

#case #confirmation #news #sacrament #should

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#class #country #discover #high #high school

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beings #cancer #communities #cure #eliminate