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“I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.”

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Voltaire, a French Enlightenment philosopher, writer, and thinker, was born on November 21, 1694, and died on May 30, 1778. He had a profound impact on philosophy, literature, and science in France and Europe with his sharp wit and critical spirit. more

“[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.”

Ifs Trying Mind Humans Ideas Ends States Enough Able Justice Human Beings Love Is Enemy Opposites Metaphor Aliens Hats True Nature Shrinking Normality Uniting

Author:Amitav Ghosh

“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.”

Remember Realizing Memories Circumstances Unreliable

Book:A Pale View of Hills

Source: A Pale View of Hills

“For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.”

Thinking Believe Records Honest Trade Liars

Author:Neil Gaiman

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