"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"

Allen, Woody on dream
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on illusion
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

Burke, Edmund on fame   

"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

Havel, Vaclav on absurdity
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"I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member."

Allen, Woody on club
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"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."

Allen, Woody on comedy and comedians
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"If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fashion   

"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on physics   

"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fallibility
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on experience
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on joy
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on disability
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result."

Wilde, Oscar on nature
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

Wilde, Oscar on goodness
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on food and eating
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"Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion   

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

Wilde, Oscar on moderation   

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."

Wilde, Oscar on popularity
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"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."

Wilde, Oscar on attitude
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist."

Wilde, Oscar on art
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

Wilde, Oscar on plays   

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"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."

Wilde, Oscar on perfection
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"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them."

Wilde, Oscar on paradox
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"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

Wilde, Oscar on necessity
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"What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"

Wilde, Oscar on mind
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"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."

Wilde, Oscar on action
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