#miseries

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

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#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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#cats #life #means #miseries #music