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“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
Source: Fool's Errand
“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”
Source: The Complete Essays
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.”
Variant: Saying goodbye is a little like dying.
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
Source: The Liars' Club
“Red tape has killed more people than bullets…”
Source: Millennium
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
Source: The Rubber Band
“There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Source: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
“Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance”
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
Variant: The human heart... tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems
“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”
Source: Dragon Blood