Analects of the Core #102

March 23, 2011 at 10:50 am

A hundred times I wanted to kill myself, but always I loved life more. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts; is anything more stupid than choosing to carry a burden that really one wants to cast on the ground?

- Voltaire, Candide (Chapter XII, the end of the Old Woman’s story)

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