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Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Age, Brings, Evil, Men, Old, Sorrow
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No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Everyday, Gets, Humans, Intolerance, Life, Tolerance

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Baby, Children, Everything, Men, Nothing

Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door desire follows hope. Rest forever. Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention nor is the earth worth a sigh. Bitterness and boredom is life, nothing else ever, and the world is mud. Quiet now. Despair for the last time. Fate gives us dying as a gift. Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power which rules for the common evil and the infinite vanity of it all.

Desire, Earth, Fate, Heart, Throbbing, Tired

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

Ideas, Infinitely, Men, Minds, People

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

Boredom, Boundless, Emotions, Expression, Profound, Sublime
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