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“What men find most endearing in other men are their tragic flaws. That is why alcoholics never run out of friends.”

“He does not know why he lives but he lives, and he lives because he does not know why he must die. He will go on this way, doing his little things, enjoying the little victories, adopting morals invented by other people, secretly supporting the ideologies of third-rate men and, at dinner time, quoting the philosophies of the extraordinary whom people like him have never allowed to live in peace.”

“He decayed in a state of gentle happiness.”

“The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. Urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think.”

“In this world, it is very hard to escape happiness. That’s how it is.”

“Happiness as an inescapable fate, not a pursuit.”

“When you do not experience but accept a phenomenon, it is philosophy, which is a form of religion. But when you experience it, it is different. An experience is a plain fact, experience is truth.”

“Straw-manning is a version of in-other-wordsing. But it’s also possible to in-other-words someone’s argument not to make it seem simplistic but to indicate that she holds views belonging to your adversary, to your outgroup.”