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“there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
Albert Camus
,
The Myth of Sisyphus
“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”
Joseph Conrad
,
Heart of Darkness
“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare
,
Macbeth
“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
Oscar Wilde
,
The Importance of Being Earnest
“I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.”
H. G. Wells
,
The Time Machine
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life
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romance
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food
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regret
shadow
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