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As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.
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insignificance
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William Shakespeare |
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I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
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insignificance
sense-of-place
universality
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William Golding |
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Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!
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insignificance
world-weariness
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting for one brief hour upon a stage, then heard no more. I'll weep an ocean in my heart, if the world would give me time. But not now.
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grief
insignificance
life
tomorrow
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David Hewson |
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He was the most inconsiderable creature in that swarming mass of mankind which for a brief space occupied the surface of the earth; and he was almighty because he had wrenched from chaos the secret of its nothingness.
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insignificance
nothingness
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our existence. Trouble is, you climb and climb, and around middle age, you discover you have spent all the time in the same spot. You thought you were going to be somebody until you slip down into the nobody that you are. I'm telling you because I know.
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existence
insignificance
life
middle-age
significance
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Please God, whatever I was I am no longer....All is forgotten, if not forgiven--it could have come to that. But I don't trust the thought. I don't know if it's because it would be too easy or too terrible to imagine no one cares anymore.
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insignificance
memory
remorse
self-knowledge
time
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Tim Winton |