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-7. Truth isn’t some neat<\/span> fact about the universe that only makes some trifling difference in the grander scheme of things<\/span>.<\/p>\n

-6. Truth is a hard edge against your life’s blood forcing you<\/span> to acknowledge its beautiful brutality<\/span>.<\/p>\n

-5. Truth is the rape of a loved one and being forced to acknowledge<\/span> that “should” and “ought” aren’t worth a drop of tears.<\/p>\n

-4. You just know the words, and truth is so much more than words.<\/p>\n

-3. There will come a time when our sense of home becomes alienated and\u00a0irresistible, and we will grasp at the stars.<\/p>\n

-2. A knight of faith is a good man in Gomorrah. What happens to a good man in Gomorrah? What happens to Gomorrah without a good man?<\/p>\n

-1. A pun that crosses languages is something nearly beautiful.<\/p>\n

0. Keep going, Sisyphus!<\/p>\n

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  1. If I couldn’t <\/span>When I put myself where I can\u2019t say goddamn or goddammit, I would probably<\/span> kill myself.<\/li>\n
  2. Titanic amounts of great effort are required to produce the slightest amounts of good results\u2014The Earth was starforged, diamonds are earthforged, we are wombforged.<\/li>\n
  3. Effort does not guarantee success, and success is sometimes alien to effort.<\/li>\n
  4. The Hero is cheered,, because in the Hero we see, acknowledge, and feel validated in as strugglers.<\/li>\n
  5. The collective noun for Hero is journey. A journey of Heroes can lead to an oligarchy.<\/li>\n
  6. The Master-Slave relation is one hell of an idea. It’s so beautiful, so enthralling, that one may spend all its time in marvel of its dynamic solitude.<\/li>\n
  7. The above is counter-revolutionary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. The above is counter-revolutionary. Do not be fooled by equivocators: can you imagine a man trying to set down and lift something at the same time?<\/li>\n
    2. A bearded man once said that philosophers seek to interpret the world, but the point is to change it.<\/li>\n
    3. Once a man devotes himself towards bringing his thought into action, he soon forgets that this is not his natural state.<\/li>\n
    4. What are called social scientists are all battle-philosophers who have been skirmishing out in the wild for so long they often forget what they are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. All I’ve ever wanted to be was a human being.<\/li>\n
      2. She laughs at me.