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[Anonymous No.23133689]

>Let's kill all the lawyers
Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2

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[Anonymous No.23133743]

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[Anonymous No.23134709]

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[Anonymous No.23134793]

>>23134709
whose team are you guys on

[Anonymous No.23135248]

>>23133687
Why not just ask me for every cent which I possess?

[Anonymous No.23135255]

>>23133749
This one is laden with irony...

[Anonymous No.23135448]

>>23133687
“Happy the creators of pessimistic systems! Besides taking refuge in the fact of having made something, they can exult in their explanation of universal suffering, and include themselves in it.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
― Albert Einstein

"Indeed Allah desires to repel all impurity from you, O People of the Household, and purify you with a thorough purification."
― God

[Anonymous No.23135459]

>>23133687
ESL

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>>23134793
Schopie was a god, clearly

[Anonymous No.23135502]

>>23135255
No, it is from a Union officer (Sherman I think) who was telling Bismarck about how to deal with French guerilla fighters. It is however frequently attributed to Bismarck himself.

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>>23135459
Yes, we know you are ESL

[Anonymous No.23135737]

>>23135459
hehe

[Anonymous No.23135742]

>>23133689
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.23135746]

>>23135502
I can see why. Bismarck was an animal when it came to Poles.

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>>23135742
Cry more, bitch boy

[Anonymous No.23135755]

>>23133689
Kek, the peasant revolt was pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.23135816]

>>23135502
Oh, I see.

[Anonymous No.23135908]

>>23135459
kek

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>>23133728
Camus was so based. It's hilarious he died like he did, because he thought people dying in a car crash was borderline hilarious.

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>>23134709
I can be both, Ari-boy

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>>23135448
>“Happy the creators of pessimistic systems! Besides taking refuge in the fact of having made something, they can exult in their explanation of universal suffering, and include themselves in it.”
>― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
I don't really get this quote. what exactly is his beef with pessimists? feels as if he wrote this spitefully. reads like "you were right, go and laugh now!" I mean what would he preferred them to do, lie and pretend life is not awful? or ignore this problem completely and be silent about it?

I never really understood this pessoa guy. he is not really against or for something. he is obviously not happy, but he is adamant about making a case how he is not sad. or rather compile a book of reasons why one logically cannot be sad yet, despite living and experiencing a different reality. I don't understand why he even wrote.

[Anonymous No.23135947]

>>23135940
75 IQ?

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>>23135947
sorry that I shit on your favorite bad author.

[Anonymous No.23136034]

>>23133687
For now, this one it's favorite
>The moral is always above the intellectual; for the sorcerer can know everything, but no the good (God, the idea).

[Anonymous No.23136044]

"It's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around, so have a good drown as you go down, all alone, dragged down by the stone." -Roger Waters

[Anonymous No.23136061]

"I cannot help you...but know that you are not alone." -Mercer, the messiah from "The Little Black Box" by Philip K. Dick

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>>23136034
A very interesting quote--made a bit less interesting coming from him, but even so.

[Anonymous No.23136100]

"They think that, just by existing, I insult them." -Howard Roark, "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, talking about his detractors

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>>23136100
That's a good one.

[sage No.23136161]

"There was a sturdy boy at my school who, when the master had carefully explained to us the nature of metaphor, said that so far as he could see a metaphor was nothing but a long Greek word for a lie."

Hilaire Belloc

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>>23136161
Snarky AND stupid. A true classic.

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>>23136145
The first time I read that line (in my mid-teens), I had to put the book down for a while and just contemplate the words. Knowing that someone understood me and what I go through was very cathartic.

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>>23136100
>Shiray Ryu dog
>Lin Kuei scum
>You offend me for every breed

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>>23136398
*breath
Holy kek

[Anonymous No.23137087]

>>23136313
You are everything that everyone makes fun of Randfags about

[Anonymous No.23137108]

>>23133687
>Any woman with an opinion is either barren or a lesbian.

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>>23137108
based

[Anonymous No.23138034]

>>23133687
>“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
- Mary Shelley

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>>23136100
>>23136313
Don't just project yourself onto the quote, try to understand it in the context of the work and why everyone hates him.

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>>23134709
He is neither, he is a philosopher - Nietzsche.

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>>23133689
based

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[Anonymous No.23138063]

>Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they increase the number of men

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>>23138060
Fucking kek

[Anonymous No.23138503]

There are people who think they know the bird because they have seen the egg it crawled out of.

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>>23138050
Because they're insecure, jealous phonies. That was made clear by the end of the book.

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>>23138063
Great one. I prefer this translation
>Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they multiply men.

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>>23133689
Yes.

[Anonymous No.23140153]

There's no such thing as a break, anon. There's only time, and how you choose to use it.

John Green

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>>23133687
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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>>23133687
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

[Anonymous No.23140218]

>as objectively considered there can only be one human Reason, so there cannot be many Philosophies; in other words, there is ONLY ONE TRUE SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY founded upon principles, however variously and however contradictorily men may have philosophized over one and the same proposition.

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>>23133687
I'm looking for Jung's quote where he says that society is nothing more than a veil that hides our love for sex and death. Does anyone have it?

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>>23140193
“Many people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.” -Tom Wright