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I'm not trying to romanticize it. Just pointing out that a certain amount of 'dark thinking' has spawned a lot of material that has informed and touched us in ways that we can't imagine living without. At least I can't.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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