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Too late “I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.” – Osamu Dazai
Pessimism For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. – Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race
Mad Pascal’s chilling reflection: “Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.” – Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death