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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

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About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Business is the salt of life. ↗

— Voltaire

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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

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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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Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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