We have sent so many messengers to the next world and none has ever come back. Things must be pretty good there.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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History makes one admire Napoleon's bloody romanticism just as cartoons make one grow fond of the loathsome mice.

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Money seems to be the fundamental principle of life. When one has money, one can afford other principles as well.

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They have trampled me under foot, true. And what of it? The fact is that I have found how much each of them weighs.

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I want to be embalmed - not that I believe in the life to come - only to spring a pleasant surprise on archeologists.

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It is a pity that dinosaurs have become extinct. Just think of the things that could have been made out of their skin.

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Certain ideas are like the tattoos of youth; we can not get rid of them no matter how much ashamed of them we might be.

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I furiously asked the waiter where my spoon was. He told me I was holding it in my hand. So customers are not always right.

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The sacrifice of the seeds rotting on stones is not futile. They will change into rich soil upon which other seeds will sprout.

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Nature errs, for indeed, it is an error to place so many aspirations and so much thirst for life in a frail and perishable body.

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