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“He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.''All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes i...”
“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
“How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent t...”
“I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost too much strength on futile things until then !”
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
“We are all guests on this earth. We come and we go. All of us. The oppressors and the oppressed, the weak and the strong. We are all here for a mere moment.”
“How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most...”
“... murder wol out”
“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. ...”
“Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.”
“...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole rui...”
“He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.”
“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of the extinction that would ensue in a few generations if the species d...”
“I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.”
“The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.”
“All this, and much more, she had accepted, for, after all, living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement. She thought of...”
“The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.”
“I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination for dying doesn't balance out the serious decision to kill. That through the ag...”
“The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.”
